Quotes About Caution

Have I not walked without an upward lookOf caution under stars that very wellMight not have missed me when they shot and fell?It was a risk I had to take—and took.

Do whatever you want with this dedication, but don't— don't— use it on your eyebrows.

The simplest, most plausible explanation I can think of is that somebody offered her a lift. A car pulled up—" "Or a van," said Strike. Robin had, indeed, reached the same conclusion he had. "Someone she knew—" "Or someone who seemed safe. An elderly man—" "Or what she thinks is a woman." "Exactly," said Robin.

Anyone pointing out pitfalls or difficulties is scaremongering. Experts don't know anything. Facts lie.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Think b4 tweeting pls.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's the living.

If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.

A genius temperament should be handled with care.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

Can't say that I like this all that much," Toussaint said, his rifle raised now and at the ready. "Feels like a trap to me.

had to tread lightly, and with care. In my haste, I stumbled over one or two of the houseboys, who grumbled and rolled over, and once in my study, I unlocked the case that holds my Colt rifle. Unreliable as it is, it still affords the best and

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

What would you do if you were me? said Solly. What would I do in your place? No, no; you'd do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?

Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense.

A red flag is a red flag." Hmmm. It took me well over fifty years to learn that one. The hard way. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," said the celebrated poet Maya Angelou. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," goes the wise saying.

careful not to overexpose

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

Bundy sternly tool his fellow endowment fund managers to task - not for being too bold, but for being insufficiently so: We have the preliminary impression that over the long run caution has cost our colleges and universities much more than imprudence or excessive risk-taking.

Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely. He chose a single word from that language for his device: caute – 'be cautious' – inscribed beneath a rose, the symbol of secrecy. For, having chosen to write in a language that was so widely intelligible, he was compelled to hide what he had written.

The letters between the two philosophers were cordial, although Spinoza at first distrusted Leibniz, who in turn referred to him privately as 'a Jew expelled from the synagogue for his monstrous opinions'. Since the fundamental assumptions behind their two systems are profoundly similar, it is perhaps not surprising that the two philosophers – whose conclusions are wholly opposed – should have treated each other with a certain caution.