Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The dignity of folly And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country;… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take,… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
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