Quotes about Prudence
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
— Seneca
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.
— Joseph Addison
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
— Euripides
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
— Euripides
The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans. Paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.
— Max Lucado
2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.
— Max Lucado
In some causes silence is dangerous.
— Ambrose of Milan
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise
— Teresa of Avila
But why is Faith believed to be a goddess, and why does she herself receive temple and altar? For whoever prudently acknowledges her makes his own self an abode for her.
— St. Augustine
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
— Julian Casablancas
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
— Henry David Thoreau