quotes about Discernment

last updated: November 28, 2023

You see, but you do not observe.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

Source : "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

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All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.
-- Johann Hari

Source : "Johann Hari: Why should I respect these oppressive religions?" by Johann Hari, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2009.

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Opportunities are seldom labeled.
-- John G. Shedd

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There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
-- Jonathan Swift

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It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
-- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Source : Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
-- Pliny the Younger

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During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.
-- John G. Shedd

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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“I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.”
“Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.”

Source : Bede Jarrett (1945). “The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons”
“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

Source : Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.95, Faber & Faber
“Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.”
“O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.”

Source : Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
“Freud was just a novelist.”

Source : "The Big Life" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.
“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”
“I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “Amaze”
“No-one ever votes Tory, do they?”

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