61 Quotes About Caution

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. Anne Bishop

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

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. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. Ruta Sepetys

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 will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you. . Nawal ElSaadawi

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

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. Tom Robbins

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates. Vikrmn

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. Gwenda Bond

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

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. A.J. Darkholme

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

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. A.J. Darkholme

I've learned my lesson. I know nothing. Ljupka Cvetanova

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

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

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

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

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. Criss Jami

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

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

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient. A.J. Darkholme

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

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

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. A.J. Darkholme

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Michael Bassey Johnson

Life without caution is like a car without brake. Bamigboye Olurotimi

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. A.J. Darkholme

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. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope

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

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. A.J. Darkholme

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

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

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

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

Beware of finding what you're lookin Richard Hamming

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