Quotes About Caution

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

Careful with fire" is good advice we know."Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

Those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

But none are so safe from sin as they that fear the falling into it most.

Act as if every broker, insurance salesman, mutual fund salesperson, and financial advisor you encounter is a hardened criminal, and stick to low-cost index funds, and you'll do just fine.

So when all your friends are investing in a certain area, when the business pages are full of stories about a particular company, and when "everybody knows" that something is a good deal, haul up the red flags. In short, identify current conventional wisdom so that you can ignore it.

You don't say much," she said, "and you're careful about what you do say. That is good. Stay that way. It will keep you alive.

Like I knew it was bad. And there were these posters.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Knowing too much about a subject can make us overly cautious. Having a lot of conventional wisdom may make us doubt our own hunches and intuition because we're more likely to think that any seemingly good ideas that pop into our heads are wrong if they don't square with what we've previously learned.

You must learn to take risks in a calculated way. The worst sin is not to be able to understand the risks you face, either because you are so risk-averse that you say "No" to everything or because you have no risk filter whatsoever.

Il eût fallu avoir peur de ce bonheur, peur de tout le malheur qu'il pouvait annoncer.

Hay que desconfiar de los tipos que te meten la nariz en la boca.

Anyone who exposes himself to the Devil, even in a movie, is exposing himself to real danger.…

Petrarch warned that "what you won, a thousand will wrest from you here and there; what you lose, no one will give back to you." Even when a winner, he reasoned, the gambler did not truly profit.

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

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

Success is as dangerous as failure,

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.