Quotes About Caution

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.

When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.

In fact, the Federal Reserve was helpless only because it wanted to be. Had it been determined to do something, it could for example have asked Congress for authority to halt trading on margin by granting the Board the power to set margin requirements. Margins were not low in 1929; a residue of caution had caused most brokers to require customers to put up in cash 45 to 50 per cent of the value of the stocks they were buying. However, this was all the cash numerous of their customers had.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza. Others had done these things and more, but they had not.

People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Based on past experience, I hope not.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

All Knowledge is dangerous

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.