quotations about caution
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
TURKISH PROVERB
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
In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
BRAM STOKER
Dracula
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