Quotes About Discernment

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers and by ignorant persons.

Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness. 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.

What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos

A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.

the ability to make good use of impressions

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!

Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les gens cons, je n'aurai plus de temps à ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

Se mi interesso a quello che pensano i cretini, non avrò più tempo per quello che pensano le persone intelligenti.

Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.

Like a Gypsy, like a witch, like Mama, she knew how to see things in a person that they'd just as soon forget.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. —Naguib Mahfouz

In fact, I'm thinking you're my object lesson for who I don't want to let into my life.

There's Tom, Dick, That Guy Over There, and Some Other Asshole—that's not the point.

There was nothing weak about not liking your coffee to taste like crap.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.