Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent
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Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
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There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner...
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
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This is strategic, I think and it's all about clinging to power. It's all about keeping their strategic options open as opposed to running the country in a prudent fashion.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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But a prudent chancellor would keep some money in the bank so that he could do something about it.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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Matthew 11:25:
At that time Jesus said, 'I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
(NIV)
At that time Jesus began to say, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [and I acknowledge openly and joyfully to Your honor], that You have hidden these things from the wise and clever and learned, and revealed them to babies [to the childish, untaught, and unskilled].
(AMP)
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
(KJV)
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
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The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
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