335 Quotes About Discernment

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.

I'm perfectly aware, for instance, that you know good society from bad.""Society is all bad.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

Risk is where uncertainty meets vision. If we have vision, uncertainty is the confirmation that we’re forging fresh paths through the forest of opportunity. If we don’t have vision, uncertainty is the stop sign at the edge of the woods.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.