Quotes About Discernment

the more harm happens to idiots, the greater the benefits to the judicious.

The sentries were professional soldiers, which could be discerned by their remarkable ability to communicate using sentences constructed entirely of pronouns and coarse expletives.

Du dachtest." Der Landknecht schaute ihn mitleidig an. "Womit denn? Wenn du Hohlkopf eine Schabe in der Suppe verschlucken würdest, dann hättest du mehr Verstande im Bauch als im Kopfe.

He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.

People and nations behave wisely only when they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom—genuine truth—holds the key to refining one's thinking.

I will seek wisdom. I will choose my friends with care.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

It's obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance. (Proverbs 1:5, NIV) The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. (Proverbs 12:15, NIV) Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. (Proverbs 15:22, NIV) Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. (Proverbs 19:20, NIV)

Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.

Your past experience must be a grid through which you evaluate every decision. Chances are, there are places you have no business visiting because of your history—places that would have no impact on the average person, but the average person doesn't share your experience with those environments.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties -- that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight, nor with the mind's eye's visions, nor with madness.

HaShem came to him in a dream at night and said, 'What should I give you?' And Solomon said, 'I am but a youth. I don't know how to go out or come in. So give Your servant a mind of understanding to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil—for who is able to judge this great people of Yours?

have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you.' And then HaShem said He would give Solomon riches and long life, as well.

Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.

Everyone always looked at the cover and never took the time to read the book.

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.