Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the… — Warren Bennis Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men,… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession… — Judah P. Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work!… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives… — Jake Desyllas Copy Share Image
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image