Quotes About Discerning

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Be open where you can and stealthy where you must

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

He has the gift of quiet.

The man missed nothing. It was almost spooky.

I had lost my respect for rationality long ago. The intellect is not the tool for discerning the future, it never has been and it never will be. It ranks somewhere behind random guessing and answering every question with the statement 'It'll be fine.

There's nothing wrong with elitist. Some stuff is better than other stuff; pretending it's not doesn't make you open-minded, it just makes you a dick.

It totally was elitist,' Julia says. 'So? There's nothing wrong with elitist. Some stuff is better than other stuff; pretending it's not doesn't make you open-minded, it just makes you a dick.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process.

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

I spot detail quickly.

I have extremely high standards.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

There are no set forms of high treason in history; whoever provokes one power in the state to conflict with another is certainly a revolutionist, but he may be at the same time a discerning and praiseworthy statesman.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

The fact that we do not have absolute certainty in regard to any human conclusions does not mean that the task of inquiry is fruitless. We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something. What we seek in any realm of human thought is not absolute certainty, for that is denied us as men, but rather the more modest path of those who find dependable ways of discerning different degrees of probability.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

New Yorkers are smart.

for as we are never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continue under the influence of some leading partiality, so neither are we capable of doing it to ourselves while we remain fettered by any obstinate prejudice. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.