Quotes about discernment (15 Quotes)

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, But harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

Sound judgment, with discernment, is the best of seers.

Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.

We leave it to the people's discernment on whether their attacks on the president are in keeping with their role as church leaders.

He who knows others is clever He who knows himself has discernment.

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first intelligence then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it the singleness of purpose and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

When you know a thing, you believe it, and the true believer sees with his spiritual discernment that which the surface investigator cannot see with the eyes of his head, and he understands through his inner thought that which the outside examiner cannot understand with his demanding, acquired process of thought. The believer acquaints himself with the sacred realities through deep senses different from those used by others. A believer looks upon his senses as a great wall surrounding him, and when he walks upon the path he says, 'This city has no exit, but it is perfect within.' The believer lives for all the days and the nights and the unfaithful live but a few hours.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs -- apart from discernment -- a certain greatness to find him.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.