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Quotes About Discernment

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
~ John Wooden
One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
~ Andy Stanley
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
~ Kristin Hersh
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
~ Virginia Woolf
A good businessman sees where others don't see.
~ Orji Uzor Kalu
To give requires good sense.
~ Ovid
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
~ Norton Juster
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
~ Max Beerbohm
Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
~ William Bernbach
Good things are not necessarily God things.
~ Craig Groeschel
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
~ Francois Rabelais
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
~ Helen Keller
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
~ George Herbert
Good health is often a matter of good judgement.
~ Marion D. Hanks
The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
~ Millicent Fenwick
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
~ Alan Dershowitz
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
~ Bobby Rahal
Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.
~ Carolyn Hax
I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.
~ Dominic Monaghan