Quotes About Discernment

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Be careful who you call your friends. I'd rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

we ourselves can sort out what to accept and what to reject. We can discern what will make us complete, sane, grown-up people, and what—if we are too involved in it—will keep us children forever. This is the process of making friends with ourselves and with our world. It involves not just the parts we like, but the whole picture, because it all has a lot to teach us.

Penso, como ele, que a fronteira entre a verdade e a mentira é um caminho no deserto. Os homens dividem-se dos dois lados da fronteira. Quantos há que sabem onde se encontra esse caminho de areia no meio da areia?

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

I was enraged by these heinous acts of barbarism - enraged that people who called themselves Muslims could launch an unprovoked attack on Christians or foreigners, enraged that through their vile acts these terrorists were perverting our faith, which tells us that Christians are among the people of the Book, that we should show discernment when fighting for the cause of God and not fight those who have not harmed us, that murder and suicide are grievous sins.

To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.

See C. S. Lewis' essay "Meditation in a Toolshed" for this crucial distinction.) The

wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)