"People should not expect the state to protect……" — Julian Baggini
"People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment."
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Julian Baggini
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110 Quotes by Julian Baggini
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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal…
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other…
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
— David Hume
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
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Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a…
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