Quotes About Discernment

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

We may not be able to say, "Don't watch," but we can watch with them and show them how to view critically, how to recognize propaganda tricks used to sell them stuff they don't need, how to identify hidden values and defuse attempts to manipulate them.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

As a leader, you must choose wisely with whom you will socialize. Friendship with a subordinate or congregant can be a blessing or a trap fraught with dangers.

By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

If it's not Fiji water, we don't want it.

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Recognize that killing a weak idea early is valuable.