Caution Quotes

I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

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.]

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.

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

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....

We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.

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

Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.

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

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

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

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

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.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert.

Little boats should keep near shore.

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.

To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.

Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.