Great saying by great authors Quote by Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

— Edmund Burke

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into…

— Samuel Johnson

“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh. ‘You advocate…

— Hilary Mantel

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”

— A.C. Grayling

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions…

— Aristotle

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

— John Milton

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of…

— Joseph Addison

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

— Edmund Burke

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

— Edmund Burke

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of…

— Edmund Burke

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