A Quote by Richard Whately

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Richard Whately

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Richard Whately
English - Writer
February 1, 1787 - October 8, 1863

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Robert Burns

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

Jean de la Bruyere

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Sophocles

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

Voltaire

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Friedrich Nietzsche

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Duke of Wellington

Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.