Diminish Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

— Mason Cooley

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

— Samuel Johnson

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

— Tehyi Hsieh

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;…

— Samuel Johnson

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 foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

— John Ortberg

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

— Jeremy Collier

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego…

— John Ortberg

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence,…

— John Ortberg

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

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

— Thomas Hobbes