Quotes about Caution

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

The fear he speaks of is that which renders us more cautious, not that which produces despondency, the fear which is felt when the mind confounded in itself resumes its equanimity in God, downcast in itself, takes courage in God, distrusting itself, breathes confidence in God.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going or it will become a snare in your midst.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

All extremes are pernicious in various ways.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.