Discretion Quote by Emile M. Cioran Download Open image “Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.” — Emile M. Cioran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discretion Genius Inspirational Intelligence Talent
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron] — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
