Quotes About Discernment

Let us not concur casually about the most important matters.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

Sometimes it is years before we can see who are the heroes in an affair and who are the victims.

There is a time to be silent. There is a time to talk for your life.

we are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use.

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing … The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

That's what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down

No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.

I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.