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Tag Name "Prudent" (132)

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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
Martin Luther
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
Werner Herzog
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Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
Emily Dickinson
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It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
Richard Whately
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We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
Thomas Traherne
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei
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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.
Joseph Campbell
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
Voltaire
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase at the end of the day--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamental
Zadie Smith
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
Thomas a Kempis
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
Aneurin Bevan
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti
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It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.
David Hume
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We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is very well to say be prudent, be careful, try to know each other. But how are you to know each other?
Florence Nightingale
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Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
Elinor Glyn
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord
Kevin DeYoung
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
John Maynard Keynes
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