Quotes About Discernment

Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

El mundo se contenta con muecas, se satisface con lo que da, sin comprobar su calidad; para él, el verdadero dolor es un espectáculo, una especie de goce que le inclina a absolverlo todo, incluso a un criminal; en su avidez de emociones, indulta sin discernimiento lo mismo al que le hace reír que al que le hace llorar, sin pedirle cuenta de los medios.

Los ojos comparan antes de que el corazón haya rectificado este rápido y maquinal juicio.

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.

You misjudge us because you do not know us. —W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Someone who's easily enticed by saying, your life will become easier... is completely useless. -Takashiro

Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your Silence. Hovsep kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit

There aren't always great things to do, and sometimes we maximize our contribution by being discerning and relatively inactive. Patient opportunism – waiting for bargains – is often your best strategy.

Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence.

The penalty of deception is to become a deception, with all sense of moral discrimination vitiated. A man who lies habitually becomes a lie, and it is increasingly impossible for him to know when he is lying and when he is not. In other words, the moral mercury of life is reduced to zero.