Discern Quotes

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.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

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

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

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

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

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.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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

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

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

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

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

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

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