Discern
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
To make cognizance.
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Discern Quotations
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Bierce
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles
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.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning Hamilton
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor
To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
James M. Baldwin
Discern Translations
discern in German is erkennen
discern in Italian is distinquere, riconoscere
discern in Latin is pervideo pervidi pervisum
discern in Norwegian is skjelne
discern in Spanish is connocer
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