Famous Quotes
58 Quotations with Discern.
- 1. Johnson: The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to t ...
- 2. Miyamoto Musashi: There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, ...
- 3. Marin Luther King: The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner q ...
- 4. Ferdinand Foch: The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; t ...
- 5. Charles Talleyrand: To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to ...
- 6. Joseph Addison: I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the bea ...
- 7. Carl Jung: As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a lig ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this wor ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 14. Marcel Proust: Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instru ...
- 15. Henry W. Fowler: Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before bec ...
- 16. Victor Hugo: Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than m ...
- 17. Miscellaneous Prover: Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his t ...
- 18. Constantine Nash: A human being has no discernible character until he acts.
- 19. James Baldwin: An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to f ...
- 20. The Holy Bible: And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge ...