Quotes About Caution

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

you must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Money, without brains, always is dangerous.

Who among your acquaintances, a. encourages you most b. cautions you most c. discourages you most d. helps you most in other ways

More data—such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street—can make you miss the big truck.

Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.

Please, don't drive a school bus blindfolded.

avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

do not use this argument to avoid trying to learn from history. All I am saying is that it is not so simple; be suspicious of the "because" and handle it with care—particularly in situations where you suspect silent evidence.

In this world, you should always be suspicious of the knowledge you derive from data.

Learning from the Mistakes of Others

As much as it is ingrained in our habits and conventional wisdom, confirmation can be a dangerous error.

Beware of precise plans by governments. As

as they are hedging the possibility of their falling into the same situation some day.

but there is no point reading too much into success stories because we do not see the full picture.

For a theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?

one is more likely to be drinking poison in a golden cup than an ordinary one.

Not understanding that doing nothing can be much more preferable to doing something potentially harmful.

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.

There are some risks we just cannot afford to take. And there are other risks (of the type academics shun) that we cannot afford to not take.

that we generally take risks not out of bravado but out of ignorance and blindness to probability!

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

Instead of having medium risk, you have high risk on one side and no risk on the other.