Discern Quotes

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone ... Bad food is fake food ... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people`s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that`s too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy - it`s bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation.as much as it is also about freshness.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he`s nothing if he doesn`t make out a case.

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.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God`s name whatever I can discern of God`s perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

He`s had a lot handed to him, for obvious reasons. There`s no sense yet of how deep he goes. ... It`s hard to discern any ambition in him. But so what? Everyone here goes on the assumption everyone wants to be prime minister.

Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they`re never going to get along.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.