Discern Quotes

178 quotes by 149 authors

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or… — Anthony Bourdain
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. — Robert Browning
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened,… — Thomas Carlyle
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of… — Sun Tzu
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. — John Milton
We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within. — George Crabbe
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow… — Carl Jung
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. — Rumi
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The… — Sun Tzu
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who… — Sun Tzu

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