Quotes About Circumspection

Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful." "I'm always careful." Garadin gave me the look. You know the one. "Whenever I can," I added.

Do not stir up the water if you do not know how to catch fish.

known that he had to be careful

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

It's much cleverer to keep out of trouble than to get out.

Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush.

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.

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.

Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn't look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, "Why's that guy looking around like that?" He'd learned not to do it.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case.

such calls for caution

We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

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

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

Better overly cautious than overly dead,

Când nu e?ti sigur, ocole?te.

I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, 'I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.

La cautela es siempre la herramienta de la sabiduría.

Caution is always wisdom's tool.

The trouble you don't get into, you don't have to get out of!

Prudence doth not abate diligence, but guides it in its worke.