Quotes About Discernment

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

Tact is good taste in action.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what's going on.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.