{"quotes":[{"text":"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absorbent","ambivert","assumption","awareness","bias","cool","crazy","culture","discernment","down-to-earth","extrovert","friendly","intelligent","introversion","introvert","judgment","knowledge","learned","loner","misunderstood","mysterious","normal","observation","odd","prejudgment","prudence","psychology","quiet-people","reality","reflection","shy","silence","social","social-awareness","strange","thinking","underestimated","understanding","weird","wisdom"],"id":17374,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blood","cannibalism","canny","clever","cleverness","flesh","knowledge","learning","man-eater","michael-bassey-johnson","prudence","sagacity","sage","sensibility","shrewd","wisdom"],"id":30789,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigger-picture","cookie","cute","faithfulness","figurative","foreknowledge","funny","god","hard-work","humility","humor","impatience","knowledge","literal","metaphor","misunderstanding","obedience","omniscience","patience","prayer","praying","prudence","time","timing","understanding","waiting","work"],"id":31255,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["conflict","passion","prudence"],"id":34871,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["conflict","passion","philosophy","prudence"],"id":48939,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: 'No one is wise who does not know some part of everything.' Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in extensive and feminine pampering. Why do I say that? If barons wish to be honoured as they deserve, they spend very little time in their manors and on their own lands. Going to war, attending their prince's court, and traveling are the three primary duties of such a lord. So the lady, his companion, must represent him at home during his absences. Although her husband is served by bailiffs, provosts, rent collectors, and land governors, she must govern them all. To do this according to her right she must conduct herself with such wisdom that she will be both feared and loved. As we have said before, the best possible fear comes from love. When wronged, her men must be able to turn to her for refuge. She must be so skilled and flexible that in each case she can respond suitably. Therefore, she must be knowledgeable in the mores of her locality and instructed in its usages, rights, and customs. She must be a good speaker, proud when pride is needed; circumspect with the scornful, surly, or rebellious; and charitably gentle and humble toward her good, obedient subjects. With the counsellors of her lord and with the advice of elder wise men, she ought to work directly with her people. No one should ever be able to say of her that she acts merely to have her own way. Again, she should have a man's heart. She must know the laws of arms and all things pertaining to warfare, ever prepared to command her men if there is need of it. She has to know both assault and defence tactics to insure that her fortresses are well defended, if she has any expectation of attack or believes she must initiate military action. Testing her men, she will discover their qualities of courage and determination before overly trusting them. She must know the number and strength of her men to gauge accurately her resources, so that she never will have to trust vain or feeble promises. Calculating what force she is capable of providing before her lord arrives with reinforcements, she also must know the financial resources she could call upon to sustain military action. She should avoid oppressing her men, since this is the surest way to incur their hatred. She can best cultivate their loyalty by speaking boldly and consistently to them, according to her council, not giving one reason today and another tomorrow. Speaking words of good courage to her men-at-arms as well as to her other retainers, she will urge them to loyalty and their best efforts.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["ability","administration","equality","good-governance","government","justice","knowledge","leadership","peace","prudence","respect","skills","strength","superiority","upbringing","war","wisdom","women"],"id":51633,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.","author":"G.A. Henty","tags":["adventure","boys","character","classic-adventure","courage","hardship","manliness","maturing","prudence","wisdom"],"id":93813,"author_id":"G.A.+Henty"},{"text":"Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels,No one knows how to upscale another, for it has to come from the inside grails,Striking inflicts at the mirror and hatred to the being of creator,Causes hate in mirror too and abused flesh to the author,Changes come from its prudence and rationalism liberation,Not its pardon,A mirror is but a substance of a conscious,But identity says 'let me fly' when journeying from the subconscious to the conscious.","author":"John Shelton Jones","tags":["change","change-your-life","conscience","empower","euphemism","euphoria","euphoric","harmony","identity","liberation","opposition","optimism","pessimism","poem","poet","poetic","poetry","prudence","reflected-in-you","reflection-on-life","reflections","soul-searching"],"id":100881,"author_id":"John+Shelton+Jones"},{"text":"If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["act","action","adage","advertisement","afraid","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","careful","catch-lines","catchphrases","cautious","characters","creative-writing","essay","frightened","inspirational","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","prudence","prudent","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","scared","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","taking-action","wisdom","writing"],"id":106400,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizens","dignity","diligence","enterprises","example","finances","greatest","height","labor","live","market","neighborhood","place","political","possible","propelling","prudence","will"],"id":123566,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}