Discretion Quotes

155 Discretion quotes by 130 unique authors

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. — Paul Neilan
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people… — Paul Neilan
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body… — St. Catherine of Siena
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly,… — Herbert Spencer
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the… — Carly Simon
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong,… — St. Catherine of Siena
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. — Gregory Peck
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it… — Philip Roth
The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that… — Thomas Jefferson
Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter… — Ayn Rand
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and… — Marilyn Johnson
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind… — Pope Gregory VII
"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable." — Luther L. Bohanon
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion. — Thomas Jefferson
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not… — Edmund Burke
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere — Amit Abraham
Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored — Triple H
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them! — Moliere
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our… — Learned Hand
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond. — Andre Maurois
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… — Gore Vidal
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent. — Emile M. Cioran
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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