Quotes About Discernment

She is also young and has the prejudices of her kind. I am older and flatter myself that I can read a man more clearly. I have no objection to Patroclus as your companion.

And there is a soreness to her body, it aches, her head feels softened, muzzy. She has acquired a disturbingly acute sense of smell. The odour of print from a magazine someone is reading across a room can oppress her. She knows what will be on their plates at lunch just from sniffing the air. She can walk down the middle of the ward and can tell who has bathed this week and who has not.

Good words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions A wise man ever culls from every quarter, E?en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

The best vision is insight.

Weisheit ist etwas anderes als Wissen und Verstand und Lebenserfahrung. Weisheit ist das Geschenk, den Willen Gottes in den konkreten Aufgaben des Lebens zu erkennen.

Piensa bien antes de actuar, habla de acuerdo con la verdad, mira por dónde caminas y filtra el agua que has de beber (Manu Smriti).

Que hoy parezcan importarnos más los líos de faldas de nuestros gobernantes que, digamos, el renacimiento del racismo en Alemania o la libre escogencia en materia de aborto en los EEUU, no es porque tengamos vocación de "tierrúos", sino porque lo somos.

Era, encara que no ho semblés, molt més llest que jo, perquè sempre són més llestos aquells que estan disposats a prescindir del nostre consentiment.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

Le sage, le bon général ou le médecin clairvoyant est celui qui sait voir et lire là où les autres ne voient encore rien.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

I think that Françoise disbelieved me, for, like those primitive men whose senses were so much keener than our own, she could immediately detect, by signs imperceptible by the rest of us, the truth or falsehood of anything that we might wish to conceal from her.

There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel... I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.

few sometimes may know, when thousands err

However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.

When a person is at home in his life, he always has a clear instinct about the shape of outer situations; even in the midst of confusion he can discern the traces of a path forward.

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have formerly judged to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this - because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if judge him to be in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.

A civilization unable to differentiate between illusion and reality is usually believed to be at the tail end of its existence.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.