Quotes about Discernment
I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.
- Sojourner Truth
But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?
- St. Augustine
Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.
- St. Augustine
Sound judgment is to be preferred even to examples, and indeed examples harmonize with the voice of reason; but not all examples, but those only which are distinguished by their piety, and are proportionately worthy of imitation.
- St. Augustine
Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.
- Matt Chandler
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
- Victor Hugo
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
- Roseanne Barr
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.
- Bill Johnson
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
- Joyce Meyer
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
- Mark Twain
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
- Maya Angelou