(151 quotes found)
“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“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 must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.”
William Shakespeare
“As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
Bible
“When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; / Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: / To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; / Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; / Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; / Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: / To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; / Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
“Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy”
Christine Keeler
