Quotes About Ethical discernment

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

Religion, Gardner continued, gives us eyes to see and ears to hear in ways that science simply cannot. "With our scientific eyes we can distinguish between true and false. With our religious eyes we can distinguish between right and wrong. When we see with our religious eyes, we live in a world of meaning.

It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

La diferencia entre un crimen y una hazaña suele depender de la perspectiva del observador

For me—the betrayal I have to look out for is that which would consist simply in attaching myself to "a cause" that happens to be operating at this time, and getting involved, and letting myself be carried along with it, simply making appropriate noises from time to time, at a distance.

Yo sigo clasificando a la humanidad —para mi uso, que es el que me importa, y que Dios me perdone— en amigos e hijos de puta.

Dar eu ce gândesc? - C? È™i dac? pot citi ce e-n mintea omului nu-nseamn? c? trebuie s? spun cu voce tare ceea ce v?d.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

He who interprets doubtful matters for the best, may happen to be deceived more often than not; yet it is better to err frequently through thinking well of a wicked man, than to err less frequently through having an evil opinion of a good man, because in the latter case an injury is inflicted, but not in the former.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right