Quotes About Discernment

This Daoist art of perspective-taking—recognizing the existence of various perspectives—is called the "Illumination of the Obvious" or the attainment of ming ? (acuity, discernment).

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

You need several eyes to see an opportunity, many eyes to see wisdom, and countless eyes to see God.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips, and unpicked flowers.

Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips, and unpicked flowers.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:??'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.

Those that would be kept from bad courses must keep from bad company; it is dangerous living in a bad neighbourhood; others' sins will be our snares, if we look not well to ourselves.

Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

And if you don't say no to the wrong things there will be no room in your life to say yes to the right things.

Do we know how to make choices? Are we aware of our choices when we are making them? Are we conscious that when we say yes to one thing we automatically say no to everything else? Did we ever really learn to make choices?

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

On the contrary. Babies are the best judges of character.

We would not know even what the false is, if there were not times when we had distinguished it from the true...If we are to be able to speak of falsity, we do have to have experiences of truth.

Consciousness of something is always consciousness of a difference between terms that are not given positively.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.