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Quotes About Discernment

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.
~ James Boswell
Big things are often just small things that are noticed.
~ zusak markus ii
La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .
~ Abraham Lincoln
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't believe everything you see on the internet
~ Abraham Lincoln
I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another.  I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love.  I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
~ Adam Smith
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
~ Adam Smith
I know a lie when I hear one.
~ Adrian Mitchel
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
~ Aesop
Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
~ Aesop
It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.
~ Aesop
I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's
~ Al Franken
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
~ Alain de Botton
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
~ Alain de Botton
How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.
~ Alain de Botton
Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - È›elul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiec?ruia ceea ce merit? atunci când o merit?, de a separa emoÈ›iile care trebuie imediat exprimate fa?? de cei care le iniÈ›iaz?, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu c?tre nevinovaÈ›i.
~ Alain de Botton
Rachel was becoming adept at sensing when something was going unsaid by adults: it was as if there were an invisible object sitting amid their visible words and Rachel was learning to judge its shape and size by feel alone.
~ Alan Brennert
Women always figure out the truth.
~ Alan Dean Foster
All books want our attention, but not all of them want the same kind of attention, and good readers know this and make the necessary adjustments.
~ Alan Jacobs