51 quotes found
“When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....”
“But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?''Yes, indeed.'She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curios...”
“Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Def...”
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
“While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.”
“If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.”
“Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.”
“It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...”
“Never do an enemy a small injury.”
“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
“What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.”
“...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
“Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.”
“If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.”
“Hasten slowly.”
“A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.”
“When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.”
“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”
