Quotes on discernment

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

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There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

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I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

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It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

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Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

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Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

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It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

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[Eomer:]'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.

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One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.

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