Quotes About Caution

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

Needless to say, my stunts take years to perfect and are closely monitored by a team of trained professionals at all times, so no one should ever think about trying to re-create them.

Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.

Courage with fear is wisdom; courage without fear is destructiveness

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

When someone sends something like that, they mean you harm. You ignore them at your peril.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

The good Christian should beware of astrologers. The danger already exists that astrologers have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

Look, Papa! Rocks! Right there ahead! We should beware of them as you said.

Now, understand. If we can put this over with Papa and the chief, we're going to watch you like a hawk!" "Four hawks!" said Sister.

The goons are at the gate again. Beware my friends, lest they be you. (from "Censorship")

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

All the bourgeois virtues, caution, obedience, zeal and thoughtfulness- they all melt away powerless in the fire of the great fateful moment that always demands only genius and forms it into a a lasting image. Contemptuously it repulses the timid man; it, another god of the earth, with fiery arms, lifts only the bold into the heaven of heroes.

To guard oneself from presumption.

Çocuk okuma yazma bilmiyordu henüz, ama ÅŸunu öÄŸrenmiÅŸti: Yeryüzündeki her ÅŸeyden ve herkesten korkmak gerekirdi!

Só posso vos aconselhar a não vos precipitares; observai tudo com vossos próprios olhos, não mudeis coisa alguma, deixai que tudo siga seu curso, caso contrário o caos e a intriga serão infindos, e vós, meus queridos filhos, seríeis envolvidos em uma trama da qual jamais poderíeis vos libertar.

It was always the same, the whole pack throughout history who called cautious people cowards, humane people weak, only to be at a loss themselves in the hour of disaster that they had rashly conjured up. Because the pack were always the same. They had mocked Cassandra in Troy, Jeremiah in Jerusalem, and I had never before understood the tragedy of those great figures as I did now, in a time so like theirs.