Quotes about Caution
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
- John Milton
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure."
- Ellen White
An unguarded face is a deep well; you don't go there casually, without ropes or lamps.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington
Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!
- Mark Twain
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet
- Stephen Hawking
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
- Eric Metaxas
Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.
- Graham Greene
This view is not traditional. Opponents of the restoration view of creation often object that this view has few representatives in the church tradition. This is true, but two observations qualify its force as an objection. First, evangelicals, and Protestants in general, look to Scripture as their sole authority in matters of doctrine. Therefore, while the absence of precedent for a view should make us cautious, it cannot itself constitute a decisive objection.
- Gregory Boyd
And be very careful what friends you make. You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges. Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what.
- LM Montgomery