Caution Quote by Woodrow Wilson Download Open image “Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.” — Woodrow Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caution Confidential Selfishness
Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! — John Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
“Caution is often a virtue, but in your case you carry it too far. It's a little flaw in your character and it shows… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the… — Woodrow Wilson 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