Cautious

Famous quotes containing the word cautious:

“Be quick in action, but cautious in speech.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“If water is too clear, it will not contain fish; people who are too cautious will never gain wisdom.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, “They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)