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The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.
Richard HammingRead
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
ConfuciusRead
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 ProustRead
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
Sherman AlexieRead
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo PicassoRead
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.
Han FeiRead
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajRead
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.
Warren BuffettRead
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
Julian AssangeRead
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
Milan KunderaRead
But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?
Bren BrownRead
The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.
Aiden Wilson TozerRead
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret ThatcherRead
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
Margaret ThatcherRead
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
Margaret ThatcherRead
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.
Dorothy DayRead
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.
J. C. RyleRead
The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
Reinhold MessnerRead
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.
Stephen SchneiderRead
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead

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