Quotes About Discernment

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

The best way to recognize a lie is to already know the truth, and so we need to have the truth of God's Word stored away in our hearts and minds.

It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.

They condemn what they do not understand.

she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.

That bastard c'n spot a gnat from three miles off, an' then read its mind.

You don't ever have to say anything,' he says. 'Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing (page 64)

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

Choice is a matter of selection. Decision is a matter of direction.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Man kann den Wald nicht vor Baümen sehen.

Lumea se întemeiaz? pe înÈ™el?ciune, iar viaÈ›a este o iluzie. ?i sufletu-i o iluzie. Trebuie, totuÈ™i, s? ai atâta minte ca s? È™tii s? deosebeÈ™ti iluziile pl?cute de cele nepl?cute. În hypocaustum, poruncesc s? se ard? lemn de cedru pres?rat cu ambr?, pentru c? în via?? prefer aromele, nu duhoarea.

There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how few choose the good? The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen.

Asses prefer garbage to gold.