Quotes About Discernment

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

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Part of being a leader means knowing who you can go after and who you should pat on the butt.

I don't pay attention to a lot of people - I pay attention to a select few, and that's worked out well for me.

At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong - everything seems to be good even if you know it's bad. So this is what I have learnt.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

I think perception is important.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Truth comes out in wine.

With a grain of salt.

In wine, there's truth.

In vino veritas

In vino veritas ("In wine, truth")

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things, nor get attracted more by what is difficult and curious than by what is serviceable and solid and useful.