Quotes About Caution

Let me now… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

In my experience it is always the most innocent-looking creatures that can cause you the worst damage.

Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

Augustus Caesar

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.