Rules Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

“While others obsess with observing the rules, we’re subtly undermining them and subverting them to our advantage.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,…

— Seanan McGuire

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

— Walter Scott

“Rules are a useful guideline and generally should be heeded, but blindly following them eventually and inevitably leads to disaster.”

— Anonymous

“You know, for someone who holds a position of legal authority as high as yours, you sure do like to throw away the rule…

— Kay Hooper

Surely you’re not going to practice discretion now?

— Nalini Singh

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

— Georg Simmel

“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.”

— Anita Shreve

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

— Horace

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is…

— Ronald Dworkin