Cautionary Wisdom Quotes

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

I have received more advice than any man living—mostly bad.

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

I asked God to use me as a vessel, so I guess you have to be careful what you ask for.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.