Quotes About Discernment

Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook.

There is a certain line that I draw for myself, when it comes to what to post and what not to on social media.

I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it's about posting things that are important to me.

You just can't say 'I'll fight anybody.' Some guys do that early in their career, and their careers never have a chance to develop, because they have had five fights at 170 pounds, when they're walking around at 147 pounds. It's not smart.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you're still on set.

I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.

The talent is in the choices.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.