Discerning Quotes

78 Discerning quotes by 75 unique authors

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense. — John C. Maxwell
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. — Russell Page
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can… — Charles Spurgeon
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet. — Unknown Author
Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning… — Scott Adams
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to… — Margaret Fuller
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning.… — Os Guinness
Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and… — John Galliano
The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when… — Marvin J. Ashton
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,… — John Robert Seeley
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having… — Marvin Olasky
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These… — Keith Olbermann
If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too. — Steve Burns
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let… — Sally Hawkins
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses… — Ambrose Bierce
Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately… — Hakuin Ekaku
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)… — Criss Jami
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye,… — Bill Vaughan

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