Admirable Quote by Edward Gibbon

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

— Immanuel Kant

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

— Joe Kaeser

“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.”

— Walter Lippmann

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

— Anonymous

“Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.”

— George Washington

“These include the beliefs that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation is in…

— Neil Postman

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

— Thucydides

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

— Thomas Hobbes

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

— Mason Cooley

Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the…

— Thucydides

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

— Immanuel Kant