Discretion Quotes

I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

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 by the crooked cord of discretion.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

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

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

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 lives.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

Surely you’re not going to practice discretion now?

Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

You know your Bible too well and life too little.