Quotes on Prudence

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

The eye of prudence may never shut.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.