Quotes About Discernment

You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.

skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.

Orrie's strong point was getting people to tell him things. It wasn't so much the questions he asked. As a matter of fact, he wasn't very good at questions; it was just the way he looked at them. Something about him made people feel that he ought to be told things.

I don't try to abolish reality by shutting my eyes, nor do I gobble garbage.

Lord Kilhenny's gaze moved from me to Darcy and back again. "A friend from London, eh?" There was almost the hint of a smile. "Didn't fool me for a second. You were the thing that was important to him, weren't you?

Ratones arriba, que todo lo blanco no es harina.

A verdade está inscrita na estrutura do mundo, apenas temos de saber lê-la.

To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

The best amongst us, in like manner, I fear, are come to the same pass that they were in Melancthon's time, who complained as he writeth in this sort: "We understand whom to avoid (meaning the Papists), yet whom to follow we know not."

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.

There is no way to satisfy the desires of all the people who clamor for their time, so leaders must subjugate their schedule to God's will and invest themselves in those activities and projects most critical. Unlike

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

Arthur W. Pink rightly warns: "The fact that a preacher has graduated with honors from some theological center is no proof that he is a man taught of the Holy Spirit. No dependence can be placed on human learning."' The

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

The Buddha told his disciples, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." I say the same to you—you must assume the responsibility for what you believe.

They wouldn't know how to see what he put in front of their eyes.

As always in biology, the problem was to know what you were looking at.

Bohr had learned to be alert for bright students who were not afraid to argue.