#discern

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

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And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too. ↗

— Steve Burns

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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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To invent is to discern, to choose. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television. ↗

— Adam Lambert

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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

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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

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