“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS” — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“Fiscal prudence, leaving cheaply, self-sufficiency, being close to nature, contenting oneself with simple pleasures, asceticism, routine, and aesthetic austerity: these are the… — Emrys Westacott Copy Share Image
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets… — Alex Himelfarb Copy Share Image
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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
“Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he… — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
“Gideon could not imagine any other young unmarried woman of his acquaintance passing up the opportunity to snare, if not himself, then… — Anne Gracie Copy Share Image
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