It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware,… — Richard Watson Gilder 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
We should use prudence when making decisions as to what is best for us, our families and our communities based on the… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. — Alain de Botton 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
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. — Charles Horton Cooley 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 suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
