Cautious

Famous quotes containing the word cautious:

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

“I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“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)