#discern

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear

A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #suspicion #r-alan-woods

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#conclusion #confirmation #discern #drawn #given

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. ↗

— Russell Page

#discerning #eye #free #hint #imagination

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#discerning #go #grown-ups #i #i think

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#destroy #discernible #longer #need #once

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping

She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him. ↗

— Christina Dodd

#emotions #people #art

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title. ↗

— Criss Jami

#discernment #equality #geniune #human #human-being