Caution Quotes

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

~ Tacitus

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

~ David Halberstam

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

~ Frank Herbert

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

~ Andrew Lang

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

~ Shontelle

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

~ Melanie Casey

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

~ C.j. Cherryh

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.]

~ Rudolf Carnap

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

~ Jonathan Maas

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

~ Dennis E. Adonis

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

~ Publilius Syrus