Quotes About Discernment

Science today owes as much to the rich men of generosity and discernment

If in doubt, say nothing.

People don't look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

A little bit, I guess. But for me it's mostly the eyes. Either there's someone home or there isn't. Either you want to knock on that door or you don't.

If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

No reason to look for complications. You hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

He saw the same kind of things, and began to understand them. The town explained itself to him, gradually, street by street.

People see, but they don't look.

An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn't discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what's trustworthy and what's not.

If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Though you are unaware of it, when you run cool wine over your tongue, you don't just taste its chemical composition; you also taste its price.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

When people react without knowing the whole story or empathizing with the parties involved, some very bad decisions get made.

heaven or hell...She couldn't tell one from the other.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

The trouble was that he happened to possess a very special faculty—a faculty for telling a person's character simply by smelling of him. He could smell out the innermost souls of people.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.