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Discerning Quotes

Discerning Definition  
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
Don Bluth

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
Joseph Bologna

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Manolo Blahnik

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace






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