Discern Quotes

178 Discern quotes by 145 unique authors

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the… — David Richo
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery. — Mercy Otis Warren
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that… — Alexander Hamilton
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another… — Benjamin Cardozo
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This… — Pope Benedict XVI
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is… — John Milton
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can… — Diane Dreher
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian… — John Flavel
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God… — Oswald Chambers
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern. — Germany Kent
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. — Henri Nouwen
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. — Lactantius
Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world. — Maria Popova
I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's… — David A. Bednar
We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset… — Melody Beattie
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet… — Charlie Chaplin
EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING — Bulleh Shah
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. — Thomas Carlyle
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her… — Thomas Browne
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to… — Mary Astell

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