Accounts Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— John Milton

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

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

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

— Jeremy Collier

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

— Henry David Thoreau

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

— Mason Cooley