Quotes About Discernment

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Silence is often advantageous.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

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.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

Is this true or only clever?

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say "no" to almost everything.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

The fact differentiates the fake.

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.

The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.