Quotes About Discernment

It's not really wine," he said. "It's Diet Coke. And if anyone ever serves you brown wine with a foamy head, send it back.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

Never part with a fact unless you've no choice.

It's good common sense, your grace.' Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

but if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.

It makes perfect sense—Hawthorne sense.

Don't judge. I'd missed most of my old English teacher's lecture on proverbs, but there was only one I could think of that started with those two words. Does "Don't judge a book by its cover" mean anything to you? I asked Jameson. His reply was immediate. Very good, Heiress. Then, a moment later: It sure as hell does.

Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

You have an immense fault which will close all doors against you: you cannot converse for two minutes with a fool without showing him that he is one.

El mundo es un conjunto de ojos, oídos y bocas, que se cierran para lo bueno y se abren para lo malo gustosísimas.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

Pero con quien cavila mientras el resto no deja de parlotear, con esta persona soy cautelosa. Temo que sea una gran persona.

There is a time to plan, a time to act, and a time to rest; it is wise to know which is which.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

seen through

I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.