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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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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? - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Lynx-eyed toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. - Jean de la Fontaine There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. - Jonathan Swift 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-Perigord
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