Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle…

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

— Walter Scott

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but…

— Michel de Montaigne

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought…

— Aristotle

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

— Sophocles

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

— Werner Herzog

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

— Irene Rosenfeld

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility…

— Werner Herzog

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten…

— Susan Hill

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

— Thomas Campion

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the…

— Pope Pius XI

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed…

— Lord Chesterfield