Best Discern Sayings
178 Discern quotes by 145 unique authors
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer…
— Rowan Williams
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for…
— Lucretius
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism…
— Rod Dreher
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I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free,…
— Dee Wallace
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
— Sophocles
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All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from…
— Mark Kurlansky
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An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to…
— Richard Louv
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In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.
— Teresa of Avila
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If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and…
— Freda Adler
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I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!
— Unknown Author
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There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they…
— Henry David Thoreau
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First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so…
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I…
— William Arthur Dunkerley
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The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible…
— George Johnson
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One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard…
— Leroy Chiao
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Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities…
— Ellen G. White
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Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain.…
— Michael Sandel
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
— Anatole France
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If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics…
— Lewis Thomas
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Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.
— Greg McKeown
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We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger…
— David A. Bednar
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