Cautiousness Quotes

• The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Errors, Suffering, Young

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• My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Smart, People, Donkey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophical, Years, Would Be

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.

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• When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

  Byron Katie

  Wind, Safety, Priorities

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012

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• It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Trying, Really Weird

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• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  Jack Dee

  Thinking, People, Enthusiasm

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• It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but 'it is the Lord who lifts up those who were laid low' (Ps. 145:8). It is not application to reading but 'it is the Lord who gives light to the blind' (Ps. 145:8). It is not our cautiousness but 'it is the Lord who protects the stranger' (Ps. 145:9). It is not our endurance but 'it is the Lord who raises or gives support to the fallen' (Ps. 144:14).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Light

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.95, Paulist Press

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• Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Action, Fortune

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