Quotes About Discernment

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

I learned little by little. I learned how to draw. I learned how to tell the difference in the quality of fabrics - the subtle differences. I started with collections for men. So my first collection for women was deeply inspired by male roles.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

The talent is in the choices.

Il talento sta nelle scelte

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Just stop pursuing the subject we know is going to lead to disaster. Pro 17:14 - The idea is not to sweep the matter under the rug but it gives a little time for the water to recede behind the dam.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

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

We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we're fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain.