Scientific knowledge is universal and necessary and what is scientifically known is demonstrable, while art and prudence are changing. Wisdom is the most accurate of all the sciences. The wise man must know both what follows from the principles but also possess truth about the principles. For prudence, particulars are more important than universals because prudence is related to action. Prudence is generally concerned with individual matters, but other types are financial management, legislative prudence and political prudence.
Prudence takes time to acquire because it is learned from experience.
Prudence is opposed to intuition, for intuition regards definitions for which one doesn't deliberate. Deliberation is a type of inquiry. Good deliberation is rightness of thinking. Good deliberation means not only that instrumental reasoning of figuring out the means to attain a certain end, but it must also have a good end in view and been done in the proper way and at the proper time. Intelligence is concerned with the same kind of object as prudence, but is not the same.