Discernment Quotes

"Trust no one without testing; after testing, trust what is fit to be trusted."

Thiruvalluvar

"To trust one untested, and to doubt one tested and trusted – both bring endless sorrow."

Thiruvalluvar

"To trust the ignorant merely out of affection leads to every kind of folly."

Thiruvalluvar

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Those who trust a stranger without testing him bring endless trouble upon their descendants."

Thiruvalluvar

"Even the most learned, when closely examined, will be found not wholly free of ignorance."

Thiruvalluvar

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Entrust a task not to those you merely love, but to those who are capable of doing it."

Thiruvalluvar

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."

Jean de La Fontaine

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

Edgar Allan Poe

"He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false."

Baruch Spinoza

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

Cicero

"Whatever is heard, from whomever it is heard, to discern its true meaning is wisdom."

Thiruvalluvar

"The wise should be like a winnowing basket: keep what is essential and let the chaff blow away."

Kabir