Discernment Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Discernment


Lynx-eyed toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. La Fontaine.	1
Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. Jean Paul Richter.	2
The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. La Bruyère.	3
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. Swift.	4
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? Greville.	5
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Richelieu.	6
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. Talleyrand.	7
The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. Emerson.	8
Simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Holmes.	9