Quotes about caution

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Adler, Alfred on caution
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"Hasten slowly."

Augustus, Caesar on caution   

"Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. [Matthew 18:10]"

Bible on caution   

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on caution   

"Look twice before you leap."

Bronte, Charlotte on caution
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"Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."

Burke, Edmund on caution   

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"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."

Cervantes, Miguel De on caution
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."

Cervantes, Miguel De on caution
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"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."

Child, Lydia M. on caution   

"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."

Forster, Edward M. on caution   

"Beware the hobby that eats."

Franklin, Benjamin on caution   

"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."

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

Hobbes, Thomas on caution   

"Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?"

Jung, Carl on caution   

"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on caution   

"Caution is the parent of safety."

Proverb on caution
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"When a fox preaches, take care of your geese."

Proverb on caution
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"Always count the cost."

Proverb, American on caution   

"Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best."

Proverb, Chinese on caution
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"Don't dance on a volcano."

Proverb, French on caution   

"Beware of one who has nothing to lose."

Proverb, Italian on caution
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"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it."

Proverb, Persian on caution   

"Beware of silent dogs and still waters."

Proverb, Portuguese on caution
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"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

Proverb, Swedish on caution   

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on caution   

"He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on caution   

"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking."

Shakespeare, William on caution   

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."

Shakespeare, William on caution   

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."

Syrus, Publilius on caution   

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on caution   

"Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

Twain, Mark on caution   

"Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage"

Unknown, Source on caution
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"A mousetrap always provides free cheese."

Unknown, Source on caution   

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on caution   

"Vigilance is the virtue of vice."

Weber, C. J. on caution   

"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on caution   

"Once you have been bitten by a snake, you are very cautious of even a coiled rope"

Gyatso, Tenzin on caution   

"Once you have been bitten by a snake, you are very cautious of even a coiled rope."

Gyatso, Tenzin on caution