Cautionary Approach Quotes

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I grow more conservative every day on the question of removals. On ex parte statements, I have made mistakes in removing men who, perhaps, ought to have been retained, and in appointing wrong men. Not many removals have been made. Less than any Administration since John Q. Adams. But I shall be more cautious in future; make removals only in clear cases, and appoint only on the best and fullest evidence of fitness.

Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I'm cautious in matters of the heart.

The effect of liberty is to let individuals ... do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.

The intelligence community, not wanting to be caught napping, tends to over-warn rather than under-warn.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

It is very important what not to do.

I am the most conservative person you will ever come across, and that's because I'm good at reducing risks while leaving the potential rewards high.

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Every technology is used before it is completely understood. We are living in that lag, and it is a right time to keep our head.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.