“Generally speaking, to be perceptive about people s most important for a samurai. You should pay very close attention to people of renown, both rivals and allies. In particular, you should always figure out who is good and who is bad.
Nevertheless, you shouldn’t raise other’s wrongs without understanding yourself, so you should make it a priority to do your own work well first. You shouldn’t just take notice of other people’s right and wrong, praising and censuring them. After all, sometimes people who ordinarily seem good maybe outrageous when something happens, and there have been those who usually seem inept but perform splendidly in emergencies. So it’s hard to generalize.” Yamamoto Ujihide
Wisdom is in many different places and sometimes reading a truth spoken a different way is very enlightening.