Quotes About Discernment

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Totul este bun, dar nu pretutindeni, dar nu oricând, dar nu pentru to?i.

Analyse politique? c'est au dela de l'observation directe, l'interpretation factuelle et evenementielle c'est savoir discerner ce qui fait sensation et essayer de comprendre ce qui sous-tend l'apparente realite qui frappe nos sens de plein fouet

Some folks you tell some things, some folks you don't.

when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

?simler, birbirinden farkl? yarat?klar? ay?rt etmek içindir; bizleri de?il.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should.

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.

Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world. And some of these have so honed that inner sight that they can even tell where a holy spark has fallen, notice its glow in the very place you would least expect it. The worse the place, the more fervently the spark gleams, flickers— and the warmer and purer is its light.

It takes the Police a long time to establish things that seem obvious.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

if the ordination to the priesthood because of a whole liturgical symbolism (which is also psychological) is reserved to men, Christian antiquity was acquainted with charismatic Ammas, spiritual Mothers, who, equally with the Fathers, Abbas, practised the discernment of spirits and penetrating insight into souls.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.