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• Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

  Donald Trump

  Leadership, Business, People

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• There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

  Margot Asquith

  Greatness, Men, Intellectual

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

  Arthur Miller

  Motivational, Money, Thinking

  "Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression". Book by Lana R. Castle, p. 258, 2006.

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• The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perspective, Holiness, Steps

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• The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Teacher, Giving

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Abuse, True And False

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.

  Mark Coleman

  Assessment, Giving, Judging

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Suffering, Spirit

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• During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

  John G. Shedd

  Motivational, Opportunity

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

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• On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Truth, Nice, Animal

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• When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

  Criss Jami

  Individual, Incompetence, Capacity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Mean, Desire, Purpose

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• A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Done, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

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• It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, World

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• Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

  Confucius

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

  William Stringfellow

  Christian, Practice, World

  William Stringfellow (1999). “A Private and Public Faith”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may abound in all discernment." When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote "discerning" about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you're critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?

  John Bevere

  Jesus, Hypocrite, Tired

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• Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Men, Mirrors

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Evaluation, Judgment

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

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• It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Passion, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.447

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• Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

  Dogen

  Believe, Events, Sage

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reality, Shields, Shyness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

  Joan Halifax

  Action, Compassionate, Openness

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• The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
  [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Jewels, World, Pearls

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