Caution is the lower story of prudence.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

— Paul Krugman

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

— Edmund Burke

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in…

— John Ortberg

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

— Knut Hamsun

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

— Victor Hugo

“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative…

— Alex Himelfarb

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the…

— Lajos Kossuth

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

— Anonymous

Fiscal prudence is very important.

— Smriti Irani