Quote by Hannah More

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Summary

This quote suggests that one should not prioritize being cautious or acting with caution if it prevents them from fulfilling their duties or obligations. Sometimes, being overly cautious or hesitating in decision-making can hinder progress or prevent necessary action. Therefore, the quote encourages individuals to set aside their discretion or indecisiveness when it comes to fulfilling their responsibilities, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing duty over any concerns about potential risks or consequences.

Topics

Judgment Judging

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, deat

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falt

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,smal

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.(also widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

Hyman Rickover, The World of the

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world the

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the he

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to l

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Terry Pratchett

Humor Funny Fantasy

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addres

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.