Conceit Quote by Sophocles

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

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

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

— Josemaria Escriva

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

— Saadi

“trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast down…

— Martin Luther

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Thomas Hobbes

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of…

— John Selden