Quotes About Caution

should avoid engaging in an action with a big downside if one has no idea of the outcomes.

those who cannot learn from experience, or don't mind taking risks they don't understand, may kill many.

this avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

These people are the ones to watch out for

they make sure that the costs of being wrong are limited (and their probability is not derived from past data).

the learning of life is about what to avoid.

Now, remember Winifred, don't bite your fingernails. Don't interrupt when someone else is speaking, and don't go down to the jailhouse at midnight to change places with Prisoners

Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.

I've long since learned to be wary of Melissa's sighs. Whenever I finish the draft of a chapter, I read it to her out loud—usually while she's washing the dishes after dinner. Not only does this get me out of doing the dishes, but it provides some extremely helpful, if on occasion devastating, feedback.

You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you.

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

Language secretly pushes and prods every one of us in hundreds of directions we don't see, until the only way to be careful with your words is to never speak.

He looks at me with his one seeing eye, as wary of me as I am of him. His eye is bright and alert. More than alert, it seems to peer deeper than eyes usually do. I know that means he's "off.

Hayden passes his hand back and forth over the flame. He doesn't move slowly enough to burn himself, but he does move slowly enough to feel the heat. Hayden notices Connor watching him. "It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow," Hayden says. "You can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough." "Are you a pyro?" Connor asks. "You're confusing boredom with obsession.

Curiosity was a cat killer?

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

So be careful when you bend over.

Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy indiscretion.

loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, dudes.

Rule Number One is don't die. Corollary Number One is don't poke things that will certainly kill you, like high-tension cables and hostile level-six Existential Anthropic Threats.

Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:

experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler.