Quotes About Discernment

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present

Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.

She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

Clara saw what others couldn't. Like that little boy in The Sixth Sense, but instead of seeing ghosts, Clara saw good. Which was itself pretty scary. So much more comforting to see bad in others; gives us all sorts of excuses for our own bad behavior. But good? No, only really remarkable people see the good in others.

Be very, very careful who you let into your life. And learn to make peace with whatever happens.

Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

A voi giovani l'unica cosa che importa sapere è se ho raccontato un aneddoto vero o falso e sottovalutate il fatto che contenga la verità che cerchiamo».

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that is good taste.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.

you need to think about the difference between what is secret and what is private.

In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.

It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction...

Lucy} knew other things too, more important non-school things. She knew that when grown-ups lowered their voices it meant you had to listen harder.

La vera forza de lupo non sta nelle sue tremende mandibole, che possono stringere con una pressione di oltre cento chili per centimetro quadrato. La vera forza di un lupo sta nell'avere quella capacità e sapere quando non usarla.

partner, Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.

Commandment 10: When observing others, be subtle about it.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.