272 Quotes About Caution

Beware of finding what you're looking for.[A favorite aphorism he often used.]

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

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

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

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

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

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.]

Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.