Discretion Quotes - Page 8

• Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Memories, Skills, Organization

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Lying, Love You, Division

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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

  Loyalty, Men, Ends

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.88

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• No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Followers, Folly, Comrade

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 13, 1605-1615.

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• Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Charity, Poverty

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• We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.

  Brigham Young

  Wise, Daughter, Believe

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• It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Character, Fire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Certain, Diffidence, Has Beens

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

  Ernest Bramah

  Doors, Should Have, Profound

  Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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• Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Genius, Talent

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• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Reviews, Court, Cases

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• Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

  Amit Abraham

  Honesty, Second Best, Spouse

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• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Judging, Golden

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• I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Opportunity, Playing Games

  "XBox One, Netflix, Charles Schwab: Why Consumer Collaboration is Key in Business". www.wired.com. June 2013.

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• Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored

  Triple H

  Wwe, Ignored, Parental

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• I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Country, Government, Debt

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

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Law, Abuse

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

  Moliere

  Doctors, Remarkable, Complaints

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• 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.

  Learned Hand

  Maturity, Years, Outcomes

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Betrayal, Exercise, Irritation

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.74, Vintage

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• Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

  Gore Vidal

  Novelists, Imitation, Poet

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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