Cautious Thinking Quotes

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

You don't want to dream too big in case it doesn't happen.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

You have to really think about things before you do them.

You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.