Quotes About Discernment

And remember always, "More ought to be scratched out than left.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

It was a part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counsellor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

Don't let him lead you astray, my child. He's such a wicked man, woof!

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold.

Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about

He extols the efficacy of the sign of the cross in chasing him, and dissipating his illusions, and lays down rules for the discernment of spirits, the first of which is, that the devn leaves on the soul impressions of fear, sadness, confusion, and disturbance.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The thing every good leader should have is an instinct.

We judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

He spoke as if He rather sympathized with the feeling in favor of celibacy,--as if to abstain from marriage were the better and wiser way, and only not to be required of men because for the majority it was impracticable. "But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

When this disciple was brought by his brother Andrew into the presence of his future Master, Jesus, we are told, "beheld him and said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas"--Cephas meaning in Syriac, as the evangelist explains, the same which Petros signifies in Greek. The penetrating glance of Christ discerned in this disciple latent capacities of faith and devotion, the rudiments of ultimate strength and power.

Excessive information creates its own form of blindness to what is actually going on.

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight.

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move, For fools admire, but men of sense approve;

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.