Quotes with caution

  • Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
  • In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
  • Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Emma Goldman Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Luc de Clapiers Action makes more fortune than caution.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Wernher von Braun I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
    Wernher von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Baruch Spinoza In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Alvin Toffler It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Washington Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • James Thomson More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Bertrand Russell Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Levin The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Dan Dierdorf You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
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