Caution Quotes

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.

Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.