Folly Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Jeremy Collier

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

“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

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in…

— Horace

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

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John Milton

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

Good nature without prudence, is foolishness

— Proverb

“She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are the most…

— George MacDonald