Top 150 Discerning Quotes & Sayings

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

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.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

The Bible is the best and most important tool in discerning direction from God.

My first job with a network was General Hospital, and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

Surrounding yourself with a great team that is really discerning and not pushing or rushing into a certain direction that doesn't seem like a progressive flow is really important.

When I graduated from cooking school, I went to work at Stars, which was one of my favorite restaurants in the country at the time, and that's where I really learned to cook and to taste food in a discerning way.

I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

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, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.

Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

Since Londoners started taking their burgers as seriously as the Americans do, discerning burger lovers have come out of the woodwork to judge every component from buns to pickles, patties to cheeses.

You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may abound in all discernment." When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote "discerning" about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you're critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?

The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning.

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

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.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

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 gentlemanliness.

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; analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.