Best 139 quotes in «caution quotes» category

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.

Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

(about William Blake) [Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and "imaginative death." And what we so often call "reason" and think is so fine, is not intelligence or understanding at all, but just this: it is arguing from our *memory* and the sensations of our body and from the warnings of other people, that if we do such and such a thing we will be uncomfortable. "It won't pay." "People will think it is silly." "No one else does it." "It is immoral." But the only way you can grow in understanding and discover whether a thing is good or bad, Blake says, is to do it. "Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." For this "Reason" as Blake calls it (which is really just caution) continually nips and punctures and shrivels the imagination and the ardor and the freedom and the passionate enthusiasm welling up in us. It is Satan, Blake said. It is the only enemy of God. "For nothing is pleasing to God except the invention of beautiful and exalted things." And when a prominent citizen of his time, a logical, opining, erudite, measured, rationalistic, Know-it-all, warned people against "mere enthusiasm," Blake wrote furiously (he was a tender-hearted, violent and fierce red-haired man): "Mere enthusiasm is the All in All!

[As to the second case] ,that of being drawn into one [a trap or ambush] ...you must be shrewd about not believing easily things not in accord with reason. For example, if the enemy puts some booty before you, you ought to believe that within it there is a hook and that it conceals some trick. If many of the enemy are put to flight by your few, if a few of the enemy assail your many, if the enemy turn in sudden flight,...you ought to fear a trick. And you should never believe that the enemy does not know how to carry on his affairs; rather, if you hope to be less deceived...and...run less risk, in proportion as your enemy is weaker, in proportion as he is less cautious, you should the more respect him.

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.

As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry.

A person may appear a fool and yet not be one. They may only be guarding their wisdom carefully.

Be careful.

Be careful of people who generalize to lure large crowds for ANY reason...

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

Be open minded to see the those that you can't trust. Be closed minded and keep ones within your trust.

Being too careful can be more destructive than being utterly careless.

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

But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.' She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

Caution should always be the prime form of interaction or approach with any unknown quantity.

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

Don’t just cautiously step through life to reach death safely.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.

I dragged my mind away from that line of thought; there was nothing but quicksand and crocodiles down that path.

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’ ‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’ ‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’ ‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’ ‘No, you are gentle and soft.’ ‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’ ‘Like snake?’ ‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

If measured and weighed properly, the pain, loss, tragedy, sorrow, regret and agony behind worldly pleasure are far more than the enjoyment in it.

If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.