Quotes About Discernment

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.