Prudence Quotes

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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,… — Maximilien Robespierre
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless… — Grenville Kleiser
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail. — Publilius Syrus
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known,… — Sophocles
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. — Edmund Burke
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For… — Thomas Merton
Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,… — Peter Singer
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to… — Randolph Bourne
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market. — Nicolas Chamfort
The only prudence in life is concentration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men. — Carl von Clausewitz
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of… — John F. Kennedy
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it… — David Bentley Hart
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. — Josemaria Escriva
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets,… — James Brady

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