Discernment – Quotes

Sound judgement, with discernment

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers Euripides

A man is likely

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business. Eric Hoffer

Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I’m not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves … Read more

The kinds of nets

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch. Elliot W. Eisner

It would be doing

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

We are praised or

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is more often

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are not fond

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. Francois … Read more

The fundamental qualities for

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. Ferdinand Foch

Yet you must not

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that. Dogen