Quotes About Discernment

Elliston-Jones know

Foy was no Tree of Knowledge, at most he was a Bush of Opinion

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Taste is the best judge, but it is rare. Art is accessible only to a very small number of individuals.

If something doesn't seem right to you, if it raises red flags, then listen to your gut. Don't listen to the anxious, people-pleasing part that wants you to ignore your intuition and just act nice.

You are free to ask for and choose what you enjoy and what brings you pleasure, as long as those choices are beneficial and in line with God's Word, and you have listened respectfully to and considered prayerfully what others need (not to be mistaken with what others usually want). This applies at work, play, home, church, in the bedroom, etc.

You have to set limits with "getting there" people, or they will tend to take increasingly large amounts of the energy, time, money, and talent God gave you to accomplish his purposes.

Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers" (Prov. 15:28).

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

Is that a knife in his hand or an ice cream cone? You'll never know until you taste it.

Distinction bias is the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

If the bath water is dirty, it can be thrown out without losing the baby!

Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.

I don't fatten frogs to feed snakes. Are you stupid? I taught you better than that. A wet pussy and a dry purse don't match.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

You seem to like everybody. It's unnatural. It's also unfortunate. You're going to waste so much time before you've worked out who the people are it's worth your while to know.

Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.

I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.