Quotes About Caution

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. – Confucius

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
– Alfred Adler

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide. – Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. – Susan B. Anthony

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia Maria Child

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn. – Thomas Merton

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage. – Unknown

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. – William James

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. – Charles Hole

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. – James Thomson

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. – Publilius Syrus

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. – Euripides

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. – Victor Marie Hugo

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you. – Saadi

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. – Alvin Toffler

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution. – Wernher Von Braun

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte