Caution Quotes

It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

I'll investigate, but I've still got to be cautious, because a monster in one's lap isn't always a good thing.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.

Anonymous

Augustus Caesar

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Miguel de Cervantes

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Little boats should keep near shore.

Benjamin Franklin

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.

Syrus

Beware of finding what you're lookin

Richard Hamming

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible

Shontelle

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

David Halberstam

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Tacitus

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Niccolò Machiavelli

It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

Auliq-Ice

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

Soheir Khashoggi

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.

Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?''Yes, indeed.'She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.

Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")

When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....

Muhammad Imran Hasan

Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons.

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Anthony Liccione

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

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