Quotes about caution

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

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

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.

Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

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

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

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.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.")

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates.

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.

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.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

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.

I've learned my lesson. I know nothing.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

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.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

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.

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.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

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.

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

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

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.

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.

(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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

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

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

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")

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.

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.

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

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

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

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

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

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

It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

I'll investigate, but I've still got to be cautious, because a monster in one's lap isn't always a good thing.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

Beware of finding what you're lookin

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.]

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.

Hasten slowly.

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

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

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

The cautious seldom err.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

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

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.

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

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

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning eithe

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

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.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

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

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

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

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

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

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

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.

When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.