Quotes About Caution

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

He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. 

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real. 

Existen dos tipos de miedos, señala el Dalai Lama: el miedo irreal, que nos impele innecesariamente hacia un estado agitado de cavilaciones baldías, y el tipo útil, que nos hace cautos o nos activa y prepara de cara a una amenaza esperada.

A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it.

A poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk towards it.

Seekers found clues in the successes, failures, and confusions of predecessors, who became their inspiration, their targets, their resource. From Socrates, Plato learned both caution and the need for bold patterns of meaning of his own. From Plato, Aristotle learned the perils of deserting the world of the senses. Still the later somehow did not make the earlier irrelevant. Seekers, like artists, never wholly displaced those who had tried before. They all enlarged and enriched the menu.

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

Love thy neighbor, just watch out for the husband

"Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near."

"Curiosity killed the cat."

Thank God I have a financial planner who is really conservative.

When in doubt, don't.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

Delay always breeds danger.

To remember, to hear and remember, is to stop and walk on again to a livelier, surer measure. It is dangerous to remember the past only for its own sake, dangerous to deliver a message you did not get.