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“The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.”

Men Want Character Government Sound Virtue Plans Effects Particular Genius Truth Is Useless Permanent Discernment Provision Exhibits Objections Efficacy

Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports: An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793 ...

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports: An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793 ...

“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.”

People Country Body Government Would Be Desire Passion Errors Prosperity Deny Stability Despise Flattery Sincerely Discernment Good Sense Systematic Misinformation

Book: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

Source: 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

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

Men Looks Mean Character Pleasure Integrity Motive Discernment Superior Man Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.”

Understanding Principles Perspective Balance Various Relate Wholeness Discernment Balanced Life Gestalt

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.”

Matter Christian Differences Christian Inspirational Discernment

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”

Knows Men Past Acceptance Conservative Conservatism Discernment

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”

Ifs Men Heart Eye Running Desire Found Loses Enemy Five Failing Color Taste Ears Claims Harmony Originals Hearing Ruins Cages Flavor Perfume Discernment Pigeons True Life Found Happiness

Author:Zhuangzi

“The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.”

Men Needs Growth Consciousness Steps Practice Higher Integrity Judgment Opposites Discernment Step Up Curriculum Higher Consciousness

Author:Glenda Green

“Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an improvement in life. This kind of discernment is an act of decency, not an act of judgment. Rigid philosophies of judgment will seek to establish structure as a substitute for decency, control as a substitute for trust, and the mind as a substitute for higher awareness.”

Source: Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--

“Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.”

Giving Spiritual Values Grows Rooms Our Lives Teaching Exercise Weed Gardening Godly Discernment

Author:Diane Dreher

“Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.”

People Young Careers Stage Prove Training Ruins Ballet Discernment Applause Whim

Author:Jean-Georges Noverre

“You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are more effective than strong ones, as Paul also said in his First Letter to the Corinthians. [...] The wisdom of discernment redeems the necessary ambiguity of life and helps us find the most appropriate means, which do not always coincide with what looks great and strong.”

Firsts Looks Mean Said Helping Use Strong Projects Letters Weak Appropriate Smallest Discernment Ambiguity Corinthians

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

World Christian Common Practice Seeing Ready Hearing Christian Life Enjoyment Word Of God Celebration Spontaneous Dependence Reliance Reckless Discernment Common Life

Book:A Private and Public Faith

Source: A Private and Public Faith

“True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.”

Mean Essentials Primaries Permanent Indifferent Discernment Transient

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.”

Past Three Understanding Leader Issues Creation Messages Decades Compromise Emphasis Discernment Genesis Over The Past Matured Creationist

Author:Ken Ham

“This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.”

People Needs Eye Asks Wide Discernment

Book:Jesus' Final Warning

Source: Jesus' Final Warning

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

Mean Funny Religion Brain Atheism Trust Laughter Discernment Open Mind Open Minded Open Mindedness God Delusion Closed Mind Closed Minded Being Open Minded Close Minded

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

Men World Humans Reason Body Together Force Human Beings United He Man Succeed Men And Women Sensibility Invitations Discernment Softness Wedding Invitation

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.”

Want Trying Light Discernment

Author:H. M. Tomlinson

“My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.”

Humor Artist Realizing Effort Modern Paris Thank God Discernment Best Effort Matisse

Author:Norman Rockwell

“The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.”

Ifs Giving Kind Wisdom Asks Prayer Simple Trouble All Kinds Our Relationship Discernment

Book:The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God about Everything

Source: The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God about Everything

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”

Way Life Inspirational Beautiful Life Is Difficult Women Worry Rich Importance Good Life Difficult Times Life Is Short Discernment Beautiful Life

Author:Isak Dinesen

“God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.”

Source: When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

“The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”

Knows Mind Believe Doe Wall Victim Prison Invisible Discernment

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.”

People Ifs Knows Young Lord Know How Praying Fruit Dialogue Intimate Trusted Disciple Vocation Discernment

Book:Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.”

Way Relief Efficient Discernment Masons Masonic Brotherly Brotherly Love

Author:George Washington

“The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.”

Self Use Levels Tools Increase Discernment Masons Masonic

Author:William Howard Taft

“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.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans Hands Truth Animal Nice Honest Creatures Elements Appreciate Constitution Intention Patterns Faculty Hiding Rope Observing Discernment Harming Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.”

Mind Honest Favors Deceit Suspects Flattery Discernment Flatterer

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.”

May Pride Degrees Flattery Discernment Mist Credible Intoxication Infatuated

Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.”

People Reading Lines Acceptance Experts Assumption Discernment Between The Lines

Book:An Air That Kills

Source: An Air That Kills

“It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.”

Want Firsts Lasts Opinion Taken Acceptance Ignorance Pride Currents Discernment

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.”

Used Modern Acceptance Shame Used To Be Humiliation Publicity Discernment Humiliate

Book:The Enemies List

Source: The Enemies List

“Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.”

Acceptance Merit Mediocrity Discernment Elitism Slurs

Book:Pieces of Eight Pa

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“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.”

People May Shows Form Judgment Abuse Presses Trusted Falsehood Discernment Firmness Truth And Falsehood True And False

Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well...What is important is the whole journey by which we arrive at the mission the Lord entrusts to us...when the Lord gives a mission, He always has us enter into a process, a process of purification, a process of discernment, a process of obedience, a process of prayer.”

Want Giving Wells Important Whole Process Prayer Lord Journey Tasks Missions Obedience Discernment Purification

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Men Mind May Universe Goal Results Vision Divine Yoga Mirrors Calm Imperfection Rooted Discernment Distortion

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.”

Spiritual Judgment Critical Discernment Evaluation

Book:The only revolution

Source: The only revolution

“When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede”

People Way Giving May Order Turns Criticism Block Criticize Discernment

Book:My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.”

Ifs Knows Want Use Past Spiritual Lines Attention Cutting Sea Storm Gods Will Pay Attention Ties Discernment Harbors Docks

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.”

Fashion Style Individuality Discernment

Author:Bill Blass

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

Action Openness Compassionate Discernment Connectedness

Author:Joan Halifax

“The moments of grace usually give us more than one good thing we can do, and we do well if we manage a pretty good batting average. ... It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situations - It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there.”

People Ifs World Moments Opportunity Chance Walks Healing Situation Creative Grace Spots Helpful Routine Fabric Better Off Discernment Dynamics

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“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.”

Men Needs Bigs Action Certain Difficult Talent Greatness Genius Intellectual Intellect Great Men Discernment

Book:The Autobiography of Margot Asquith

Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith

“We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.”

Needs Believe Discernment

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.”

People Ifs Should States Habit Protect Intellectual Neglect Discernment

Author:Julian Baggini