Caution Quote by Barbara Tuchman Download Open image “Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.” — Barbara Tuchman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caution Dangerous Language Materials Seductive Used
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to. — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution. — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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