Prudence Quotes - page 5

When the bow and the sling were laid aside in favour of the gun, prudence naturally forbade the putting an instrument of so dangerous a nature into the hands of children; they however provided themselves a substitute for the gun... (Joseph Strutt)
2462. Thou canst scarcely be truly wise till thou hast been deceived. Thy own Errors will teach thee more Prudence, than the grave Precepts, and even Examples of others. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Quentin looked glum and shook his head. "Unleashing the appetites is not freedom, but another type of slavery. Freedom in the absence of virtue will destroy a country as quickly as any tyranny.” Victor said, "Virtue imposed from without is not virtue at all, but merely prudence. A man who avoids lying merely because a law tells him to tell the truth will avoid telling the truth as soon as the law tells him to lie.”. View quote
John C. Wright
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. View quote
John Adams
O maister deere and Fadir reverent, Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement, O, universel fadir in science! Allas! þat þou thyn excellent prudence In þi bed mortel mightist naght by-qwethe; What eiled deth? allas! whi wolde he sle the? View quote
Thomas Occleve
That these ideas will ultimately triumph, I have no doubt. Nor is it open to question that by the combined efforts of the peace-loving peoples they can be made to triumph now, before Europe has been again plunged into a fresh bloodbath. May Heaven grant that the statesmen of the world may realize this before it is too late and, by the exertion of the needed courage and prudence, restore again to the position of authority which it had only a few years ago, that great institution for the maintenance of peace on which the future of civilization so largely depends. I mean, of course, the League of Nations. View quote
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action. View quote
Umberto Eco
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. View quote
Paul Krugman
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside. View quote
Paul Krugman
They trusted rather their own character and prudence - knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses... Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Masterly inactivity may be prudence to one man, desperate rashness to another. View quote
Arthur Kekewich
They all learned to he masons from him, or from one another; instead of miscellaneous laborers and hunters, became regular tradesmen, the best in all their district, the skilfullest and faithfullest, and the best-rewarded every way. Except my father, none of them attained a decisive religiousness. But they all had prudence and earnestness, love of truth, industry, and the blessings it brings. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. View quote
Cicero
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. View quote
Edmund Burke
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. View quote
Edmund Burke
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, And can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. View quote
Edmund Burke
I suppose, at the smallest average, for the making of a single rich man, we make a thousand whose life-long is one flood-tide of misery. The charnel-houses of poverty are in the shadow of the palace; and as one is splendid, so is the other dark, poisonous, degraded. How can a man grow rich, except on the spoils of others' labour? His boasted prudence and economy, what is it but the most skilfully availing himself of their necessities, most resolutely closing up his heart against their cries to him for help? View quote
James Anthony Froude
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. (Samuel Johnson)
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules of composition it produces vigilance rather than elevation rather prevents loss than procures advantage and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
They are periods when the wisdom of the wise is confounded and the prudence of the prudent turned into a laughing-stock.... View quote
Sri Aurobindo