Definition of Discretion

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Discretion

Disjunction; separation.

The quality of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control; prudence; circumspection; wariness.

Discrimination.

Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will.

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Discretion Quotations

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin

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

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine

Discretion Translations

discretion in Italian is tatto, discrezione
discretion in Latin is prudentia
discretion in Norwegian is diskresjon
discretion in Swedish is gottfinnande, urskiljning

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