"Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.…" — Philibert Joseph Roux

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• Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. — Corrie Ten Boom
• Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. — Lord Byron
• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal… — Chanakya
• What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience… — Alexander Hamilton
• One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other… — Oswald Chambers
• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the… — Samuel Johnson
• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious… — David Hume
• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. — Laozi
• Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a… — Donald Trump
• Opportunities are seldom labeled. — John G. Shedd

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