Acquire Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are…

— Henry Fielding

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

“Just as nothing is more foolish than misplaced wisdom, so too, nothing is more imprudent than perverse prudence. And surely it is perverse not…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius…

— Samuel Johnson

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only prudence in life is concentration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

— Warren Buffett

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the…

— William Godwin

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

— Thomas Hobbes