quotations about caution
In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
BRAM STOKER
Dracula
Erring on the side of over-caution is costly, and so is erring on the side of under-caution, though for a given choice, one might be costlier than the other.
WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Economics for the Citizen
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
TURKISH PROVERB
God save a free country from cautious men--men, I mean, cautious for themselves--for cautious men are men who will not speak the truth if speaking of it threatens to damage them. Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON
Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar President
The awful thing about most people is their caution--the crawling, abject bird-in-a-hand theory.
THOMAS WOLFE
Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 11:4