Quotes About Discernment

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

Part of being good with a rifle is knowing what I'm shooting at. Did you think I'd just start unloading bullets into the underbrush?

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-understand blueprint.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for

cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.

The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will.

When opportunity knocks, you don't go punching it in the face.

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame.

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

she had the educated instincts of a European, not an Asiatic,

resist the temptation to jump to a solution;

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

You may think I have been rather quick to decide I am in love. But he is a clear kind of person, about whom one has to think clearly.

Metà dei guai del mondo sono causati da uomini non allenati a risentirsi per una affermazione fallace come per un insulto.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.

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