Top 38 Quotes About Circumspection
#1. Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
J. K. Bharavi
#2. Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Franz Grillparzer
#3. It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.
Ahmad Ibn Zayn Al-Habashi
#4. There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
James Madison
#5. The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
#6. What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
H.G.Wells
#7. Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.
Elizabeth Samet
#8. The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor
#9. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#10. And this,' said she, 'is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! The happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!
Jane Austen
#11. The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#12. Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
Samuel Adams
#15. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.
Judith Orloff
#16. Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.
Robert Plant
#18. Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund Burke
#19. A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#20. I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.
Shirley Hazzard
#21. Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.
John Le Carre
#22. I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
Dallas Willard
#24. The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Carl Sandburg
#25. With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
Anne Campbell
#26. The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.
Elaine Morgan
#27. Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?
Bob Marley
#28. and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,
Elise Ballard
#29. You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.
Lewis Carroll
#30. I shot all the bad, but damn it all, I shot all the good as well. That's something you never quite come back from. That's something that's a fresh pain every day.
Tiffany McDaniel
#31. If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.
Charles Dickens
#32. Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible. I think ... I think it's in my basement ... Let me go upstairs and check.
M.C. Escher
#33. He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies.
Margaret Atwood
#35. I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.
Lazaro Hernandez
#37. Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.
John Adams
#38. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.
Kate Hattemer
