The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress. — Tehyi Hsieh Copy Share Image
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life. — Rebecca Lee Crumpler Copy Share Image
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Those that earn serendipity see what others don't, do what others won't and keep pushing when prudence says quit.” — Glenn Llopis Copy Share Image
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he… — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
![“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be1/aristotle-78_achieve_prudence-is-the-virtue-of-that-part-of-t_431676.jpg)
