Quotes About Discernment

That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.

other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.

What renders a truth meaningful, worthwhile, & c. is its relevance, which in turn requires extraordinary discernment and sensitivity to context, questions of value, and overall point—otherwise we might as well all just be computers downloading raw data to one another.)

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.

The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.

I'll teach you differences.

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

There is something I want you to see. Something related to what I was saying about the propensity of human beings to prejudge others and then cling to that prejudice no matter how wrongheaded it may be."     The

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

The Stationmaster, sensing something more than just two dogs and a boy, waited in silence.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

The Truths of War are absolute, but the principles governing their application have to be deduced on each occasion from the circumstances, which are always different; and in consequence no rules are any guide to action. Study of the past is invaluable as a means of training and storing the mind, but it is no help without selective discernment of the particular facts and of their emphasis, relation and proportion.

The great lesson we learn from life is when, and when not be, in the centre of things

If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

So violence is not to be expected of those who exercise reason; such conduct belongs to those who have strength without judgement.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Be cautious of what is within you; block off what is outside you, for much knowledge will do you harm.