Quotes About Discernment

To be a manager is to be part detective. The clues are everywhere, the skill is in reading them. When

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.

There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a year or so to any young person he thought might have a future in the arts. [...] He declared he wouldn't install running water because he didn't like the class of people it attracted.

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

When I walk into a house and see good paintings on the wall, I can smell money. But when I see tatty old carpets on the floor under them, I smell real money.

MISUNDERSTANDING arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.

Our companies, communities, and countries don't necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas.

We do our best to hear from God, but we are all a bit spiritually hard of hearing. Our own convictions sometimes get intermingled with what we believe God is saying to us. None of us knows everything. We're all shaped by our environment and limited in our understanding. We do our best to hear from God, but we hear God through our individual filters, our preconceived ideas and convictions. This

I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas in your head, but nothing will wreck you quicker than if you let yourself confuse what's real and what isn't, you hear me?

19You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Don't read everything on the internet as true, as it might not be.

and in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.