Quotes about caution

“Do you have another plan?” I asked.

“No,” said Leslie. “I just want you to be careful. Just because you think you know what you’re doing doesn’t mean you actually know what you’re doing.”

“I’m glad we clarified that,” I said.

“Your fear is all too human. Accept it, but as you walk this path, let your hope guide you.”

“And what if hope guides me off the edge of a cliff?”

“I said let hope guide you. I never said stop paying attention to where you’re going.”

“It’s not going to come to that,” I said.

“Nobody ever believes it will,” so the driver. “That’s why it does.”

I’ve learned to be wary when something makes you this excited.

I'd begun to grasp the principle that the less anybody knows, the less any squealer can give away. And it was easy to see that in a place where questioning was liable to assume the aspect of a blood-sport, the less one did know about other people's business, the better.

'The wise lamb does not enrage the lion,' he said. 'It placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.'

Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.

“You don’t seem the superstitious type.”

“I’m not,” Ben said. “I’m careful. There’s a difference.”

Better to be overly cautious than naive.

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Maybe you should always be on the lookout. If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.