“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When it seems the gods demand a sacrifice, patience and prudence always promote a well-thought stronger response over an in-the-moment reaction.” — Charles Benedict 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
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
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
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet… — James Malcolm Rymer Copy Share Image
But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do… — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?” “Yes, but against my will.… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“Thus was this expedition finished, when it had lasted 3 years and 9 months after having, by its event, strongly evinced this… — Admiral George Anson Copy Share Image
“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Proverbs 18:15). We see again this theme… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
“Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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