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By playing at Chess then, we may learn… First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight… Second: Circumspection… Third: Caution…And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, ‘A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.’

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

Don’t limp in front of the lame.

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,–a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,–to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,… and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

courage isn’t simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.

In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there’s not a lot to talk about unless you’re in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, ‘Is this the best way to do this?’ True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, ‘It can’t be done.’

The fool rushed to certain conclusions.The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man’s estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, … about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.