Definition of Cautious

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Definition of Cautious
	Cautious Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Related Definitions: And, As, Attentive, Avoid, Cautious, Circumspect, Danger, Examine, General, Misfortune, Of, Or, Probable, Prudent, To, View, Wary, Watchful, With

Cautious Quotations

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
Rand Beers

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cautious Translations

cautious in Afrikaans is versigtig
cautious in Danish is forsigtig
cautious in Dutch is voorzichtig, behoedzaam
cautious in German is vorsichtig
cautious in Norwegian is forsiktig, forsiktig, varsom
cautious in Portuguese is cauteloso

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