Cautious

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

Confucian Analects.

“Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.”
—Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)

“As a particularly dramatic gesture, he throws wide his arms and whacks the side of the barn with the heavy cane he uses to stab at contesting bidders. With more vehemence than grammatical elegance, he calls upon the great god Caveat Emptor to witness with what niggardly stinginess these flinty sons of Scotland make cautious offers for what is beyond any question the finest animal ever beheld.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)