Quotes About Discernment

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like? Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth.

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

It was the black jellybeans that did it.

I thought I asked to dispense with bullshit." "There's bullshit and then there's bullshit, Lady Kiva." "Well, you're right about that, at least.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

With all the polls and opinions posts, with newspapers more opinion than news so that we no longer know one from the other....

This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.

You know, Suzy, they ain't no way in the world to get in trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You look back at every mess you ever got in and you'll find your tongue started it.

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect." never have been able to find these words.

I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

If you trust in everything the world tells you, you can't develop your own intuition about what's right or wrong. Start believing in your own intuitions they are the green light towards your life.

There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind devotion.

Maturity is putting a process between opportunity and decision.