Caution Quotes

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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.

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.]

Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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.

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

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.

It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...

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

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

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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.

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

I've learned my lesson. I know nothing.

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.