Quotes About Discernment

You may think it's enough to just read Val Kilmer's wine blog and drink whatever he recommends. And for the most part, you would be right. But sometimes Val Kilmer gets confused and drinks Thousand Island salad dressing, and so it's important to develop your own palate as well.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!

I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Experience makes us wise.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience