Top 283 Discern Quotes & Sayings

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

When emotions arise, I don't attempt to suppress or repress them, so that I can discern their basis or cause.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.

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 sending his Son.

The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

I don't discern between OTT and theatre because this is incredible work that I 'chose' to do.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

Unfiltered photos always get more attention. Filters are easy to discern.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

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 to work.

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 to discern.

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

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 feels.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.