Quotes About Discernment

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

For you, Lady Copley, Lady Agatha wishes you to have her china set, since you complimented it." Blake bit back laughter at Lady Copley's expression. She had loathed the china set, obviously, and only complimented it as part of the games. But Agatha had known how to discern the truth from the lies.

Be careful of whose advice and what advice you buy, even if it is for free, my advice included.

Lassan azért kezdek rájönni, hogy sokszor azokra érdemes odafigyelni, akik nem járatják folyton a szájukat.

Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.

A cat who turns her nose up at bread does not deserve meat.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

If it seems too good to be true... it probably is.

Lepiej jest nie wiedzie? za du?o, przyjacielu. To znaczy, rozs?dnie jest wiedzie? tyle, ile si? da, ale jeszcze rozs?dniej jest utrzymywa? innych w niewiedzy co do w?asnej wiedzy.

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

Homem que baba não morde.

Las fábulas me han enseñado, durante toda mi vida, a distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso, a discernir el bien del mal. En una palabra, fueron los animales los que empezaron a hacerme humana.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem." —G. K. Chesterton

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.