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Prudent Quotes

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.122, Metropolitan Books

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

"Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

"Pirithous". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2036, e-artnow