With eyes
Of microscopic power, that could discern
The population of a dew-drop. [ James Montgomery ]
Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]
One may discern an ass shrouded in a lion's skin without spectacles. [ Proverb ]
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. [ Bishop Horne ]
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. [ Lactantius ]
Nature and Heaven command you, at your peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man. [ John Ruskin ]
Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]
Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. [ Milton ]
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. [ Tupper ]
To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, - this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. [ John Ruskin ]
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]
If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]