Quotes About Prudence

Caution is always wisdom's tool.

La sabiduría excluye la audacia.»

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. So

No debes poner todos tus huevos en la misma cesta. A la inversa, no debes contar los huevos antes de que estén puestos.

The trouble you don't get into, you don't have to get out of!

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

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

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

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

Prudence doth not abate diligence, but guides it in its worke.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

A foolís anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

A fool rejects his fatherís discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.