Top 45 Discern Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Discern Quotes from famous people such as Ambrose Bierce, Carl Jung, Wil S. Hylton, Rowan Williams, Julian Baggini, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just c

Genius – to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Bierce
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.
Wil S. Hylton
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.
Rowan Williams
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I’m tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.
Julian Baggini
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That’s something that can discern the peace and love.
Yayoi Kusama
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius
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.
Matt Mullenweg
I’d like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.
Frank Peretti
It’s good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
Darin Strauss
My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that’s always valuable.
Kurt Elling
Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership – it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
Richard Foster
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.
Mary Astell
We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.
Maryanne Wolf
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler
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.
Tom G. Palmer
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
Frederick Henry Hedge
I tend to find in my musical world people end up appearing, and I’m pretty good at being able to discern right away whether or not they are going to be appropriate based on their personality.
Devin Townsend
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.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you’re trying to do, if that makes sense. It’s a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
Robert Stromberg
There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they’re both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.
Lawrence O’Donnell
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don’t view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it’s good or bad. But overall, I don’t view things as good or bad.
Tao Lin
Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn’t understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.
Chuck Todd
When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.
Jimmy Gomez
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.
Marcel Proust
A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature – to discover its true nature – other than by close and respectful observation?
Ben Dolnick
By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.
Ruth Reichl
What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?
Antonin Scalia
God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.
Ellen G. White
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Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That’s why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the ‘demands’ of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.
Douglas Rushkoff
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
Margaret Heffernan
To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare
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.
Leroy Chiao
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.
Howard Nemerov
I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it’s hard to discern how many people are actually involved.
Zoe Quinn
I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
Adam Lambert
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.
Ellen G. White
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon
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.
Jules Verne
Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.
Charles Duhigg
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.
James Mark Baldwin
I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person’s energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.
Dee Wallace
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.
George Berkeley