Quotes About Discernment

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Un tempo avevo occhi molto buoni. Quello che hanno visto è un altro discorso. L'esperienza mi ha insegnato che si può guardar succedere qualcosa senza nemmeno vederlo.

Je suis assez honnête, moi, pour faire la part des choses entre le beau et le vrai et préféré le beau quand il s'impose.

We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand;

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

You either know fashion or you don't.

People have always had different opinions. Now they have different facts. At the same time, in an information sphere without authorities—political, cultural, moral—and no trusted sources, there is no easy way to distinguish between conspiracy theories and true stories. False, partisan, and often deliberately misleading narratives now spread in digital wildfires, cascades of falsehood that move too fast for fact checkers to keep up.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Oh, no. He was furry, not stupid.

Whether it has two legs or four, just because a pup yaps at you doesn't mean you have to pay it any mind.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

A Papa az ír nyugaton nÅ'tt fel - mindig is tudta, mi a helyes. Tökéletes modora volt. Ami szerintem nagyjából abból allt, hogy soha, senkinek semmit nem mondott.

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor are all people interested in the pursuit.

Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest.

Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early. If you quit on time, it's not going to seem like anything particularly dire is happening at that particular moment.

Can you tell Stork from butter?

I want to find the right projects. I'm not going to take just anything.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.