Prudence: The Footprint of Wisdom

 

 

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

John Milton

 

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Edmund Burke

 

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

George Washington

 

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Jeremy Collier

 

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

 

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Francois Fenelon

 

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage (and advantage).

Niccolo Machiavelli

 

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

Warren Buffett

 

The eye of prudence may never shut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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