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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
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.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.
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.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
I'm the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
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.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
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.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
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.
My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered.
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
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.
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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.
When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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.
