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It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence  (Discern Quotes) To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival  (Discern Quotes) Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good  (Discern Quotes) Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards  (Discern Quotes) I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one  (Discern Quotes) The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important  (Discern Quotes) 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  (Discern Quotes) Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one  (Discern Quotes) Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good  (Discern Quotes) When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future  (Discern Quotes) Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery  (Discern Quotes) Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them  (Discern Quotes) Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern  (Discern Quotes) The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true  (Discern Quotes) Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face  (Discern Quotes) Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know  (Discern Quotes) The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that’s trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that’s nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head  (Discern Quotes) 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  (Discern Quotes) Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading  (Discern Quotes) Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues  (Discern Quotes) When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived  (Discern Quotes) 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  (Discern Quotes) Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about  (Discern Quotes) I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love  (Discern Quotes) Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure  (Discern Quotes) 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  (Discern Quotes) Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place  (Discern Quotes) Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes  (Discern Quotes) As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being  (Discern Quotes) 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  (Discern Quotes)
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