Nahj al-Balagha
Quotes about caution
A collection of quotes on the topic of caution, use, life, time.
Quotes about caution

Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XII · Attacking with Fire

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 364
General

From 1985 interview with Swiss Journalist Jean-Philippe Rapp, translated from Sankara: Un nouveau pouvoir africain by Jean Ziegler. Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions Pierre-Marcel Favre, 1986. In Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87. trans. Samantha Anderson. New York: Pathfinder, 1988. pp. 141-144.

The earliest appearance of this proverb yet located is in Eliza Cook's Journal Vol. 11, (1854), p. 128, and the earliest attribution to Addison yet found is in Public Ledger Almanac (1887), p. 20.
Disputed
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Era/XD8DAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22 Many Thoughts of Many Minds

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Collected Works, Vol. 31, pp. 152–64.
Collected Works

1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)

“Your experience cautions that progress is neither easy nor quick.”
2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)

“My son, I caution you to keep
The middle way, for if your pinions dip
Too low the waters may impede your flight;
And if they soar too high the sun may scorch them.
Fly midway.”
Insruit et natum: Medioque ut limite curras,
Icare, ait, moneo. Ne, si demissior ibis,
Unda gravet pennas; si celsior, ignis adurat.
Inter utrumque vola.
Book VIII, lines 203–206; translation by Brooks More
Metamorphoses (Transformations)

The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, pp. 47-48, journal entry, November 17, 1768.
Letters

Wir sind im Wesentlichen noch dieselben Menschen, wie die des Zeitalters der Reformation: wie sollte es auch anders sein? Aber dass wir uns einige Mittel nicht mehr erlauben, um mit ihnen unsrer Meinung zum Siege zu verhelfen, das hebt uns gegen jene Zeit ab und beweist, dass wir einer höhern Cultur angehören. Wer jetzt noch, in der Art der Reformations-Menschen, Meinungen mit Verdächtigungen, mit Wuthausbrüchen bekämpft und niederwirft, verräth deutlich, dass er seine Gegner verbrannt haben würde, falls er in anderen Zeiten gelebt hätte, und dass er zu allen Mitteln der Inquisition seine Zuflucht genommen haben würde, wenn er als Gegner der Reformation gelebt hätte. Diese Inquisition war damals vernünftig, denn sie bedeutete nichts Anderes, als den allgemeinen Belagerungszustand, welcher über den ganzen Bereich der Kirche verhängt werden musste, und der, wie jeder Belagerungszustand, zu den äussersten Mitteln berechtigte, unter der Voraussetzung nämlich (welche wir jetzt nicht mehr mit jenen Menschen theilen), dass man die Wahrheit, in der Kirche, habe, und um jeden Preis mit jedem Opfer zum Heile der Menschheit bewahren müsse. Jetzt aber giebt man Niemandem so leicht mehr zu, dass er die Wahrheit habe: die strengen Methoden der Forschung haben genug Misstrauen und Vorsicht verbreitet, so dass Jeder, welcher gewaltthätig in Wort und Werk Meinungen vertritt, als ein Feind unserer jetzigen Cultur, mindestens als ein zurückgebliebener empfunden wird. In der That: das Pathos, dass man die Wahrheit habe, gilt jetzt sehr wenig im Verhältniss zu jenem freilich milderen und klanglosen Pathos des Wahrheit-Suchens, welches nicht müde wird, umzulernen und neu zu prüfen.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 633
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

Other

From Gibbs's obituary for Hubert Anson Newton (1897), in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hubert-newton.pdf.

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Reverend James Madison http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj090050)) (31 January 1800).
About Weishaupt

The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307, p: 20-21

“We must substitute courage for caution.”

Tusnádfürdő speech http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/viktor-orban-s-presentation-at-the-27h-balvanyos-summer-open-university-and-student-camp, 26 July 2016

"The Gospel of Freethought" http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/flowers/101gospel.htm, p. 104
Flowers of Freethought (1893)

p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)

“Distrust & caution are the parents of security.”
Poor Richard's Almanack (1733)
Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.

Il est un temps où le courage et l'audace tranquilles deviennent pour un peuple aux moments clés de son existence la seule forme de prudence convenable. S'il n'accepte pas alors le risque calculé des grandes étapes, il peut manquer sa carrière à tout jamais, exactement comme l'homme qui a peur de la vie.
On the plaque in front of his statue on the hill of the National Assembly of Quebec.

Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"

"About Music Criticism" (1909), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 196
1900s

In The Wave Theory, Light and Spectra. Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra. Memoirs by Joseph Von Fraunhofer (1981), p. 14 ISBN 0-405-13867-9
1890

Speech at an Anti-Corn Law League banquet (29 July 1843), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 116-117.
1840s

from Ghosts From the Coast by Nancy Roberts, University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill & London, 2001, , p. 94.
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)

Source: Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848), Ch. XXI

“We are not the same, I am a martian, so approach my phantom doors with caution”
My Life Featuring Lil Wayne
LAX (2008)
Vol. I; CCLXXXIV
Lacon (1820)

The American Credo: A Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920)
1920s

Decisions Determine Destiny, fireside address http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=10726| delivered on 6 November 2005.
Templexity: Disordered Loops Through Shanghai Time (2014), "Distribution" (original emphasis)

Source: Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age (2003), p. 5

Thoughts on global warming on C-SPAN 2 (February 15, 2007) http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/10/dino-flatulence.

"Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency: Torture Produces Unreliable Information" http://web.archive.org/web/20070629145037/http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/torture/2007/12/former-director-of-defense-intelligence.html, Human Rights First (2007-12-11)

The Prize (1993 Edition) by Daniel Yergin. Original source was Roosevelt's papers, as listed in The Prize's Bibliography.

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 588
Sunni Hadith
Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 47)

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 30.
The 44 Scotland Street series

“Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.”
Source: Words and Things (1959), p. 94

"Freedom National, Slavery Sectional," speech in the Senate (July 27, 1852).

“Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.”
Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)
The Portable Door (2003)
Appendix 1, Handbooks and formulae
Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978)
To Najibuddaulah Translated from the Urdu version of K.A. Nizami, Shãh Walîullah Dehlvî ke Siyãsî Maktûbãt, Second Edition, Delhi, 1969, pp.104-05.
From his letters

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 12 “Captain and Mayor”

Rep. Ron DeSantis on refugee debate: 'Err on side of protecting the American people' http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/11/27/rep-ron-desantis-on-refugee-debate-err-on-side-protecting-american-people.html (November 26, 2015)

Source: Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda, (2014), p. 338

Quoted in Patrick Caughill, "Another Expert Joins Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk in Warning About the Dangers of AI" https://futurism.com/2-expert-thinks-ai-will-undoubtably-wipe-out-humanity/, February 2017

Epistle to James Smith.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 46)

In his address to the members of the Masonic Fraternity on the occassion of his joining as member of the Masonic Lodge. quoted in "Article # 14 Initiate responds to his Toast R.W.Bro. Jaya Chamaraja Wadeyar".

“It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.”
Rex v. Bowditch (1818), 2 Chit. Rep. 281.

Source: The Case of Mr. Richard Arkwright and Co., 1781, p. 23-24

Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.
Sources: Efe Agency, PSOE PSOE http://www.psoe.es/ambito/saladeprensa/news/index.do?id=89659&action=View and the general press.
As President, 2006

If They Come in The Morning (1971)

Source: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life, P. 31.
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act II