Quotes About Discernment

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.

Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.

Wij moeten leren om partijdig te zijn zonder onrechtvaardig te zijn.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Our Lord Jesus Christ knows how many Devils there are in his church and who they are.

I do like Manny, crank up the inside volume, listen to my dreams as I walk through the school halls, I choose what words to let in.

Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;

You can always tell a pig by its grunt.

I tell you straight that I would not eat such nastiness, even had I made it myself. Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips. Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble. But have some mutton, friend Chichikov. It is shoulder of mutton, and very different stuff from the mutton which they cook in noble kitchens — mutton which has been kicking about the market-place four days or more.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

When wine is in, truth is out, you know.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

You cannot tell a man's intention by looking at his forehead, you must look through it to the inside of his head; and no judge and jury are capable of looking through the skull of a man who has done nothing but talk to see what goes on inside." And

you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.