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To invent is to discern, to choose. — Henri Poincare
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you… — Criss Jami
... I pray... that you may discern your affairs in a manner pleasing to God and may so act and endeavor that you may find… — Symeon the New Theologian
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. — Johannes Tauler
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance.… — Julian Baggini
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that… — Parker J. Palmer
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge… — Alanis Morissette
Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive… — Sue Thoele
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high… — Henry David Thoreau
The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn… — Daniel Smith
We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice. — John Corvino
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern. — Daniel Alarcon
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Jung
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a… — Howard Nemerov
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without… — Marcel Proust
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. — Henry David Thoreau
The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in… — Ellen G. White
Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of… — Douglas Rushkoff
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin… — Willa Cather
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have… — Thomas Sowell

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