Quotes About Discernment

Sometimes things go wrong only to teach us what is right...it is up to us to know the difference and make the right choice after the fact!

When your heart aches, just remember God knows what's best, and when the times is right God will show you the difference between people who are meant to play a part in your life and those who are meant to be apart of your life.

If you care about the quality of your life and your happiness, you have to be selective as to who you allow into your life.

We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only set by the truth.

Pay attention when someone gets mad, that's when their true colors show.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.

wand. Until then, because I had not understood, I had not seen.

draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been at a dinner-party, could tell at once its exact degree of smartness, just as a man of letters, simply by reading a sentence, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

a man of great ability will ordinarily pay less attention to other people's foolishness than would a fool.

we do not know what a thing is until we have approached it with our intelligence.

Unfortunately, if the eyes are sometimes the organ through which our intelligence is revealed, the nose (to leave out of account the intimate solidarity and the unsuspected repercussion of one feature upon the rest), the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles.

The energy now spent on self-protection can be converted into positive energy if we're willing to encounter reality and see it clearly. Facing reality is an empowering act - it can liberate our mind and heart to discern how best to use our power and influence in service for this time.

Why do we insist of depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Why do we insist on depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.