Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - danger - Buboquote.com

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos /

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.

It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Wilhelm von Humboldt ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables /

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius - Analects /

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime /

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

And knows that to win without danger is to win without glory.

Seneca - De Providentia /

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No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

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

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

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

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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 - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

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

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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 /

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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.