Quotes on Prudent

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Turn on the prudent _x000D_ Ant, thy heedful eyes, _x000D_ Observe her labours, _x000D_ Sluggard, and be wise.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

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.

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

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.