Quotes About Discernment

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Don't share your dreams with everyone. Make them a reality - then share.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.

I debated between law school and divinity.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

I keep reading between the lies.

I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

if you can only learn to see them. The truth had been there all along, only now had I seen

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

But I do know that people who have made their own money are likely to spend it more carefully and discerningly than a group of politicians and bureaucrats. We all have a natural tendency to be more responsible with our own possessions than with those that belong to someone else.

Oh, wise young judge.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision.

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.