Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like that. And now, I still have an opinion on everything, but I try to balance staying informed and having a positive attitude.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.