For when their wealth gave them a greater inclination to leisure, and they had loftier notions of excellence, being also elated with their success, both before and after the Persian War, with more zeal than discernment they pursued every kind of knowledge, and so they introduced the flute into education.
If you've ever launched an entrepreneurial venture or run a small business for any amount of time, you know that what hurts your success the most is what you don't know – those areas that you think you're handling successfully, but because of your lack of understanding, knowledge or discernment of what your clients and customers truly need and want, you're taking a wrong path.
That is, it hones your natural skills of discernment and intellect to productive thought and the creative application of knowledge.
We value certainty over discernment, absolute knowledge over tentative belief, and the illusion of stability that dogmatism (of the religious and non-religious types) offers in response to the perceived threat of chaos some fear ambiguity portends.
Whatever, they are bold and abbreviated, they fear no free association and no kind of knowledge or desire and are overtly concerned with the ways intellectual discernment can clash with erotic taste.
His act of knowledge is essentially an act of love and intelligence combined - of wonder as well as discernment - of opening to a process of mutual discovery.
Dewey's particular version of pragmatism, which he called "instrumentalism," is the view that knowledge results from the discernment of correlations between events, or processes of change.
While Zhu often speaks of knowing or comprehending something in terms of the metaphor of seeing it clearly, of having a clear discernment of it, which is nothing like rigid propositional knowledge, he does recognize several forms or levels of knowing, and regards the basic steps of learning in analytical propositional terms and the higher levels in more synthetic insight terms.
They educated me through their knowledge of plants and wildflowers, and their discernment of birds, animals and landscape features I would never have noticed.
