Famous Caution Quotes

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

"Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left."

When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Go carefully, child of maat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on."

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.

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

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

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

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

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

He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

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

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.

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