Quotes About Discernment

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Know that you cannot help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice." — Story Waters, author and spiritual teacher

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

A word of advice don't give it.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Avoiding something doesn't always mean that you hate it. It could also mean that you want it but you just know it isn't right.