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"The cautious seldom err." »Confucius
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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?" »Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism." »Author Unknown
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"When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee." »Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)
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"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them." »Thomas Fuller
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." »Sigmund Freud
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"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied." »Sophocles
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"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." »Tom Robbins
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"Be cautious in your intercourse with the great; they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. Friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no assistance in time of actual need." »The Talmud
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"The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new." »Galileo Galilei, The Assayer
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