Quotes About Circumspection

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

The motion of the mind is not as the motion of a dart. For the mind when it is wary and cautelous, and by way of diligent circumspection turneth herself many ways, may then as well be said to go straight on to the object, as when it useth no such circumspection.

If you can't be good, be careful.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

Don't go looking for trouble, it will find you soon enough without you shouting out an invitation.

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

Discretion is the best form of calculation.

Never attach where it is obvious

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

I can see now that I had indeed lost a little of my common sense, my circumspection, and the coolness that comes from the directive of proceeding sine ira et studio—and that I had, with my speculations, shifted the "blame" from the unknown Senders onto humanity, incurable misanthrope that I was.

and should be avoided.

When people talk to you in such glowing terms, that is the time to be very, very alert because the worst of the mistakes are made in the best of the times.

caution dressed up as wisdom.

to play everything close to the vest.

If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Like everybody and trust no one.

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.

Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.