Top 100 Quotes About Discerning
#1. The car bumper sticker for the discerning Sydney motorist, 'Is it true, or did Alan Jones tell you?', should be letter-boxed around the country.
Kerry-Anne Walsh
#2. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.
David Petersen
#3. It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.
Criss Jami
#4. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense - the starkest Madness
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail
Assent - and you are sane
Demur - you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a Chain -
Emily Dickinson
#5. worship is not primarily a venue for innovative creativity but a place for discerning reception and faithful repetition. That
James K.A. Smith
#6. We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.
Os Guinness
#7. Smart leaders believe only half of what they
hear. Discerning leaders know which have
to believe.
John C. Maxwell
#8. Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
Bokeem Woodbine
#9. 'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available in a variety of platforms and written by an editorial staff known for its distinctive and discerning style and wit.
Jared Kushner
#10. I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
Joseph Bologna
#11. In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.
F.R. Leavis
#12. One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
Os Guinness
#13. Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century.
Haruki Murakami
#14. One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.
James Redfield
#15. The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.
Karl Popper
#16. Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Elbert Hubbard
#17. It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
John Charles Polanyi
#18. Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
David Hanson
#19. 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.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#20. When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.
Michael Beckwith
#21. It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.
Tilden Edwards
#22. One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Pico Iyer
#24. Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
David Hallberg
#25. One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
Kevin Sessums
#26. 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.
Don Bluth
#27. According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with. Steve Cope [p. 85]
Dani Shapiro
#28. 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.
John Galliano
#29. There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
Jonathan Swift
#30. Isn't it strange that the emotions of love and the afflictions of lust are look-alike, bewildering women from discerning the lover from a seducer, and unfortunately for them the language of love and the dialect of lust have a common alphabet causing this confusion.
BS Murthy
#31. Perhaps the activity of discerning culture - sifting through it to highlight its most worthy and discard its most unredeemable - is as essential as the activity of making culture.
Brett McCracken
#33. As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. We are thrilled with the response we are getting to Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi. Our goal is to bring a luxury dining experience consistent with international standards of excellence to the expanding and discerning clientele in India.
Sirio Maccioni
#35. 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.
John C. Maxwell
#36. Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#37. Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen ... God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.
Charles Spurgeon
#38. But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
Margaret Fuller
#39. Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
Scott Adams
#40. Oh, how she loved the braw Highlanders, his boldness as he'd regard her with his discerning gaze, and how she wished he'd touch her with his hands in the same places and not with just his eyes.
Terry Spear
#41. To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.
John Ruskin
#42. If they are morbidly obese, then you can conclude that they will probably eat everything and anything and do not have discerning taste.
Jim Gaffigan
#43. If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.
Charles R. Swindoll
#44. Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#45. Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#46. Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#47. One of the greatest joys of not judging others is becoming capable of discerning God's will in a difficult situation. Pg 152
John Kuypers
#48. Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#49. 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
Warren G. Bennis
#50. I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
#51. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. You have two eyes,
but the discerning have three.
You have two ears,
but the wise have four.
You have two hands,
but the enlightened have five.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
Joseph Conrad
#54. Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#55. Discerning God's calling is more a relationship than a route, more journey than destination. It's about who you are becoming more than where you are going. Perhaps it's less about what you do and more about how well you do whatever you do.
Levi Lusko
#56. 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.
Stephen Charnock
#57. Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.
Susan Mann
#58. Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.
David Brooks
#59. As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
Jonathan Ive
#60. Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably.
Mark Helprin
#61. When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert Hubbard
#62. You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.
James Redfield
#63. Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
Anonymous
#64. All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
Nancy Kress
#65. I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
Ethan Hawke
#66. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. One must learn to be discerning with one's own thoughts. We must be able to decipher the truth versus the lies of our minds. Otherwise, we become enslaved to the shackles of struggle we place on our own ankles.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#67. Faith has been a cornerstone and foundation of our species, and other of the hominidae taxonomy for millions of years. It is the foundation of good relationships, confidence, and even discerning wisdom and truth.
Leviak B. Kelly
#68. We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Ibn Khaldun
#69. Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.
Os Hillman
#70. We need to learn to "read with a comb" - that is, developing a value system that gives us the ability to be critical of what we study. Here the word critical does not mean approaching our studies with a negative attitude. It means being cautious and discerning.
R.C. Sproul
#71. For all the discerning talk, it's the close at hand, the visible that exerts the overpowering force. And what we don't see ...
Ian McEwan
#72. Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
Charles Caleb Colton
#73. Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest ... into which he has settled ... Wisdom immediately appears ... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.
Hakuin Ekaku
#74. common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As
Praying Medic
#75. Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,
Steven Pinker
#76. Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O
Keith Olbermann
#77. A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page
#78. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).
Josephine Akhagbeme
#79. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. 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.
Scott Bakula
#81. O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame - that is the history of man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. 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.
Willa Cather
#83. The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra
#84. Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.
E.B. White
#85. Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
Al-Ghazali
#86. Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye ...
Emily Dickinson
#88. You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage."
He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.
Christine Feehan
#89. The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect ... Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
Marvin J. Ashton
#90. But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
Wislawa Szymborska
#91. But one thing led to another, as things have a way of doing, and in 1948, when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life-shaping decisions, I became a Cub fan. The Catholic Church thinks seven-year-olds have reached an age of reasoning. The church might want to rethink that.
George F. Will
#92. From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
Baba Kalyani
#94. Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.
Amy Tan
#95. Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
#96. What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.
John Piper
#97. a good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band director must have a discerning ear
Mary Ellen Cavitt
#98. I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
Sally Hawkins
#99. I just feel like they're a network I have a good vibe with, and I'm very grateful. 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.
Jaime Ray Newman
#100. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
