Quotes
Quotes about Danger
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zealâwell-meaning but without understanding.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. â¢George Orwell The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. â¢Henri L. Bergson Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. â¢Eleanor H. Porter The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. â¢Henry Courtney A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. â¢Leonardo Da Vinci A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. â¢Carolyn Wells Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. â¢S. Dubay A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. â¢Winston Churchill The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. â¢Sigmund Freud A feeble body weakens the mind. â¢Jean Jacques Rousseau Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. â¢Buckminster Fuller A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. â¢Anthony Trollope We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. â¢Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. â¢Jean de LaBruyere Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. â¢Napoleon Hill A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. â¢Martin Luther King, Jr. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. â¢Nicholas Hilliard A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. â¢Eugene Ionesco Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. â¢Maxwell Maltz Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. â¢Source Unknown The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. â¢Michel de Montaigne If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. â¢Lyall Watson Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. â¢Elbert Hubbard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. â¢Colin Wilson Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Psychological Reflections.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.
