Quotes About Discernment

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.