"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."

Prudence, Instinct, Reason, Balance, Judgment

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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."

Origen, Greek Theologian

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"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Prudence, Rules, Learning, Patience, Discipline

"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Prudence, Risk, Advantage, Decision

"It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger"

Erin Hunter, British Author

Prudence, Strategy, Caution, Decision, Risk

"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Prudence, Survival, Detachment, Realism

"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Prudence, Safety, Happiness, Truth

"Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Prudence, Curiosity, Awareness, Caution, Humor

"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Prudence, Foot, Tongue, Wisdom, Caution

"People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others."

Sravani Saha Nakhro, Indian Author

Prudence, Luck, Sense, Reason, Action

"If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Prudence, Fear, Action, Courage

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"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."

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"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."

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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."

"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."

"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."

"It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger"

"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."

"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."

"Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same."

"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."

"People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others."

"If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened."

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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Consciousness is a born hermit."

"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."

"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."