“Discretion is the best form of calculation.”

“There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length… If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision… It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. …we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.”

Lee Smolin (1955) American cosmologist

“Forgiveness is the best part of valor… Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

“Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases of calculation. Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation.”

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) austrian economist

“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law

“If perfect health is the best preventive and security against disease, and if a well-selected and properly administered vegetable diet is best calculated to promote and preserve that perfect health, then this part of the subject — what I have ventured to call the medical argument — is at once disposed of. The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond the possibility of debate. Now, that this is the case — namely, that this diet is best calculated to promote perfect health — I have no doubt.”

William Alcott (1798–1859) American physician and author

“The best form of saying is being”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

“An agent must have some discretion.”

Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist