Quotes About Discernment

Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.

Other than that, employ this rule: A book gets fifty pages. If you aren't dying to get back to it the next day, move on over to the next one.

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

You read between the wrong lines.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

I'll teach you differences.

Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.

Quality is better than quantity.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.