Lack of Discernment Quotes

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

A person who gives his verdict before thoroughly examining the situation, and, a person who believes before looking at the evidence Do not give him the power to rule over those who seek for Knowledge, because he will not be able to do justice to his authoritarian position and hence, not being able to understand the judgments of the other wise people under him, he would not be able to distinguish a good man form a wicked person

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.