Quotes About Prudence

Naturally, in time, forceful and able men, admired administrators, having swallowed the initial fallacies and having been provisioned with tools and with public confidence, go on logically to the greatest destructive excesses, which prudence or mercy might previously have forbade.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal merit, attainments in learning, and prudence in managing public business shall not be unworthy of the dignity of that see.

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Do not siphon gas with your mouth.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."—Omar N. Bradley

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli 16th-century Italian philosopher, dubbed "the father of modern political science," author of The Prince

Si seguimos desarrollando la tecnología sin inteligencia o prudencia, puede que nuestro sirviente acabe siendo nuestro verdugo.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.

Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts? Morrigan put her arm around Birkita and squeezed. I'm eighteen. Nothing I do is prudent. Birkita sighed. That is what worries me.

One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is.

Scrubby, impecunious men drift to and fro there, waiting for the gods to provide something easy; and the prudent man, conscious of the possession of loose change, whizzes through the danger zone at his best speed, 'like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned round walks on, and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.

It is a disturbing thought that we suffer in this world just as much by being prudent and taking precautions as we do by being rash and impulsive and acting as the spirit moves us.

For Dimon steps such as taking write-downs when necessary and always preserving the quality of capital are part of "doing the right thing

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

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