Prudence Quotes

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Better is to bow than break.

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."