Dangerous Quotes
3111 Dangerous quotes by 2099 unique authors
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
— Dan Greenburg
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That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before,…
— Cheon Eunbi
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In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into…
— Unknown Author
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Extremes are dangerous.
— Jonathan Mayhew
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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
— Unknown Author
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Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
— Georgette Leblanc
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Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional…
— Timothy Leary
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Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us
— Heavy D
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The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;…
— Marin Mersenne
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
— Jean Danielou
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[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my…
— Unknown Author
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If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
— Eric Temple Bell
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
— Sun Tzu
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be…
— Derek Parfit
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Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday…
— Marty Stern
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On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is…
— Thomas Merton
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It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also…
— Bhakti Tirtha Swami
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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
— Alan Watts
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The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow…
— John Sparkman
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There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.
— Unknown Author
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