Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern... this your great people?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and s...aid unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to disce...rn how becomingly they fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reas...on. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of... truth by long poring on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what th...ey should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust... our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavours in it, may also become clearer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »