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Letter "D" » discern
«Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conclusions, discern, discerns, draw, premise, premised, premises, unknown
«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.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writers
| Keywords:
discern, instrument, optical, optical instrument, reader
«All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.»
Author: Miyamoto Musashi
(Martial Arts master)
| Keywords:
discern, entail, entailed, entailing, timing
«And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? / I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? / Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? / Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.»
«And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?»
«And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean»
«And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; / Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.»
«As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
As Far, darkness, discern, discerns, existence, human existence, kindle, kindling, mere, sole, the darkness
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Experience,
Failure,
Life,
Men,
Relationships,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discern, worthily
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