Quotes About Discernment

Rumors are bound to go around. Listen to them from one ear, take it out the other.

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

I'm an excellent judge of character. I can tell people who want something from me or if they're actually buddies.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

Suffering is not discerned, neither has love been learned, and what removes us in death, nothing unveils. Only the song's high breath hallows and hails.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.

I metodi possono essere un milione e più, ma i principi sono pochi. L'uomo che afferra i principi può scegliere con successo i suoi metodi. L'uomo che prova i metodi, ignorando i principi, avrà sicuramente dei problemi.

Instead of always preoccupying ourselves with trying to get what we think we want or need, we'll start to quiet, we'll start to listen. We'll wait for that inner prompting. We'll try to hear, rather than decide, what it is we should do next.

Calm yourself. Think with your intellect, not your burning heart, and you will see what I must do.

He was so strong." "Compared to Yesu, he is weak. The evil one is but a gou, a dog on a leash." "I've . . . never heard a demon's voice before." "You are wrong." "What do you mean?" "It is not that you have never heard the voices of demons, but that you haven't known you were hearing them." Quan put his hand on Ben's trembling arm. "In America, the voices of demons sound more pleasant.

Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality.

they have ears, but cannot hear

At least you were a fool about the right things

Hear a man too loudly praising others, and look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty.

Don't judge a book by its cover, someone said.

Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

The real point of the story is that you can't always tell by looking at the outside who is a Christian and who is an unbeliever.