Quotes About Caution

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

an infinity of precautions

No podemos permitir que la ciencia destruya su propia obra. Por esto limitamos tan escrupulosamente el alcance de sus investigaciones.

Don't take that horrible stuff. It's poison, it's poison.

Todas las generalizaciones son peligrosas, incluyendo esta.

Playboy: Do you ever wonder how you have survived this long? Thompson: Yes. Nobody expected me to get much past 20. Least of all me. I just assume, "Well, I got through today, but tomorrow might be different." This is a very weird and twisted world; you can't afford to get careless; don't fuck around. You want to keep your affairs in order at all times.

I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. There on a Holy World hilltop, I realized how very dangerous it is for people to hold any human being in such esteem, especially to consider anyone some sort of divinely guided and protected person.

Never trust the enemy that gives you presents

Yes; and remember that two-legged crocodiles are more dangerous that the others.

thoughtlessness is a bad advisor.

when the man would be responsible for everything he speaks in vain. -He's responsible when that, which he speaks in vain, causes a misfortune.

Patrão, não vamos confundir prudência com covardia; a prudência é uma virtude.

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

An intelligent businessman takes only risks that will not put him out of business, even if he makes several mistakes in a row.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.

It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup from which one should drink with the greatest caution. One might have all the things which the modern world offered, but what was the use of these if they destroyed all that which gave you strength and courage and pride in yourself and your country?

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.

And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.