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danger
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain
danger
idea
A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.”
Paul Valéry
danger
to understand
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world. ”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
danger
world
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Alfred Adler
danger
life
But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.”
Friedrich Hölderlin
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Patmos
danger
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.”
Jules Renard
danger
success
It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.”
Publilius Syrus
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Sentences
danger
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius
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Analects
danger
to learn
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Journal intime
danger
mistake
truth
No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
courage
danger
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
-
Human, All Too Human
danger
lie
truth
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Henry David Thoreau
danger
music
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
John Stuart Mill
courage
danger
genius
society
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
Marcel Proust
danger
dream
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.”
Pierre Corneille
-
Le Cid
danger
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy. ”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
danger
passion
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”
George Bernard Shaw
danger
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
Pablo Picasso
danger
oneself
success
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
Alfred Adler
danger
lie
truth
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw
danger
ignorance
knowledge
Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
danger
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Confucius
danger
to learn
to think
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
Aristotle
danger
life
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