Genius Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater Download Open image “Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Prudence Time Use
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Si quieres ser sabio, aprende a interrogar razonablemente, a escuchar con atención, a responder serenamente y a callar cuando no tengas nada que decir.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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