Prudence Quotes

237 quotes by 170 authors

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind. — Jane Lynch
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The eye of prudence may never shut. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness… — Henry David Thoreau
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high… — Baltasar Gracian
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all;… — Charles Caleb Colton
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

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