Quotes About Prudence

No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

To fight alone against the world is not courage but foolhardiness. No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

to play everything close to the vest.

A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.

better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Money is the wise man's religion

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.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Love prudence.

Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Vorsicht ist die erste Sorge jener, die gelegentliche Scharlatanerie und Betrug gewöhnt sind.

Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.

La razón por la que puede ser prudente desconfiar del juicio político de los científicos no es fundamentalmente su falta de carácter—que n o se negaran a desarrollar armas atómicas—o su ingenuidad—que no entendieran que una vez desarrolladas dichas armas serían los últimos en ser consultados sobre su empleo—, sino concretamente el hecho de que se mueven en un mundo donde el discurso ha perdido su poder.