Definition of Caution

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Caution

A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

Security; guaranty; bail.

Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.

To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.

A pledge, bond, or other security for the performance of an obligation either in or out of judicial proceedings; the promise or contract of one not for himself but another; security.

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Caution Quotations

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles de Gaulle

Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma Goldman

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma Goldman

Caution Translations

caution in Afrikaans is waarsku
caution in Danish is forsigtighed, advare
caution in Dutch is waarschuwen
caution in Finnish is varoittaa
caution in French is circonspection, avertir
caution in German is Behutsamkeit, Vorsicht, Warnung
caution in Latin is cautela
caution in Norwegian is forsiktighet, forsiktighet
caution in Portuguese is cuidado

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