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
“I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey 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
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help… — Khaled Hosseini 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 is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country;… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other… — Ovid Copy Share Image
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
“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
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image