Top Discretion Quotes
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
Harry A. Blackmun 
Henry Steele Commager 
Isaac Barrow 
Jean de La Fontaine 
Hannah More 
Walter Scott 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott 
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope
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Marcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonFrancis BaconJohn RuskinDenis DiderotJean de La FontaineMarquis de SadeChristian Nestell BoveeWilliam GodwinJohn AdamsSandra Day O'ConnorWalter ScottEvelyn WaughChristine Keeler
Georg SimmelLytton StracheyBarbara TuchmanIsaac BarrowMarie de France JuniusJohn SeldenPhilip StanhopeHarry A. BlackmunHannah MoreJohn Griffin CarlisleHenry Steele CommagerPope Gregory VII
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