Quotes About Ethical discernment

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.

When he did not think, but simply lived, he was continually aware of the presence of an infallible judge in his soul, determining which of two possible courses of action was the better and which was the worse, and as soon as he did not act rightly, he was at once aware of it.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

Some of the problems born of structural violence are so large that they have paralyzed many who want to do the right thing. But we can find more resources, and we can find them without sacrificing our independence and discernment.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man's mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil

To live a life of impeccable integrity, you must discriminate the source of your desire, so you know when to discipline your behavior for everyone's benefit, including yours.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

San Josemaría criticaba la visión clerical que no distingue ámbitos —el orden natural y el sobrenatural, la Iglesia y el Estado, la religión y la política, etc.—, y sostenía que para la inmensa mayoría de los asuntos humanos no había una "solución católica", sino que cada cristiano elige la opción más conveniente según el dictado de su conciencia bien formada.

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Las fábulas me han enseñado, durante toda mi vida, a distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso, a discernir el bien del mal. En una palabra, fueron los animales los que empezaron a hacerme humana.

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!