Quotes About Discernment

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

It is the difference: we generalize do not. Specific bad humans did specific bad things; those humans do we not like. But the rest of humanity we judge one by one.

how fine our distinctions when we cannot choose

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Sin embargo, el instinto es más sabio que el intelecto.

Your heart is always wiser than your head

A red flag is a red flag." Hmmm. It took me well over fifty years to learn that one. The hard way. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," said the celebrated poet Maya Angelou. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," goes the wise saying.

careful not to overexpose

Carl Jung once said that 'your vision will become clear only when you can look

Y en mi vida personal, hago lo mismo: solo como la mejor comida, aunque en pequeñas cantidades; solo leo los libros más originales y profundos; paso el tiempo en los espacios más luminosos e inspiradores y visito los lugares más fascinantes.

common sense is no t always common

You could hear a mouse fart.

Particularly during one's youth, it is difficult to distinguish trivia from what is worthy.

it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.

Philosophy is the art of second glances

While exorting us to judge other cultures in their own terms, he [Said] asks us to judge Western culture from a point of view outside---to set it against alternatives, and to judge it adversely, as ethnocentric and even racist.

As you say, he had a way of drawing admissions from people.

Kur dievas, tas prakeiktas kvailys? Negi jis neskiria, kas teisinga, o kas ne? Nesupranta papras?iausio balanso? Seniai b?t? išmestas iš darbo, jei vadovaut? korporacijai, turint omeny, kokiems dalykams leido atsitikti...

Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the adoption of good measures, yet when once adopted, they are likely to be stable and permanent. It will be far more difficult to undo than to do.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

John D. Rockefeller had an unfailing knack for knowing who would help or hinder him in his career, an instinct only sharpened by time.