The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress. — Tehyi Hsieh Copy Share Image
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
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
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here… — Catherine McAuley Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The look of good sense and prudence, even of the best kind, differs from that of genius, in that the former bears… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Enough gold to live like a lord, you said. What did you do with all that wealth?” Brown Ben laughed. “Fool boy… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine 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
![“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/aristotle-78_achieve_prudence-is-the-virtue-of-that-part-of-t_431676.jpg)
![“But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d33/thomas-jefferson-43_aloof_but-you-may-ask-if-the-two-departments-i_1638614.jpg)
![“The look of good sense and prudence, even of the best kind, differs from that of genius, in that the former bears the stamp of subjection to the will, while the latter is free from it. And therefore one can well believe the anecdote [...] how once at the court of the Visconti, when Petrarch and…” quote by Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/arthur-schopenhauer-226_hegel-s-face_the-look-of-good-sense-and-prudence-even_196158.jpg)
