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Quotes About Dangerous

Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
~ Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do
~ Oscar Wilde
It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
~ Confucius
Learning without thinking is wasted effort; thinking without learning is dangerous
~ Confucius
Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's no such thing as life without bloodshed, McCarthy says philosophically. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Carmen Cardoso acreditava no conto de fadas mais perigoso de todos: o do príncipe que a salvaria.
~ Cornelia Funke
It must be a dangerous world." Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Mo had once given her a book about fairies. Dustfinger shrugged. "Yes, it's dangerous, so what? This world's dangerous, too, isn't it?
~ Cornelia Funke
What a terrible weapon love could be. Was any knife sharper?
~ Cornelia Funke
Some secrets were so dangerous that they should never be kept.
~ Cynthia Voigt
The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.
~ D.H. Lawrence
And yet, deep inside herself, a sense of injustice, of being defrauded, had begun to burn in Connie. The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.
~ D.H. Lawrence
So he smiled to himself, for a dangerous phenomenon in the world is a man of narrow belief, who denies the right of his neighbour to be alone.
~ D.H. Lawrence
And again the dread of the night came on him. He was a net-work of nerves, and when he was not braced up to work, and so full of energy: or when he was not listening-in, and so utterly neuter: then he was haunted by anxiety and a sense of dangerous, impending void. He was afraid. And Connie could keep the fear off him, if she would. But it was obvious she wouldn't, she wouldn't.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
~ Dale Carnegie
The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law."40
~ Walter Isaacson
America's most dangerous internal threat, he felt, came not from communist subversives but from those who used the fear of communists to trample civil liberties. "America is incomparably less endangered by its own Communists than by the hysterical hunt for the few Communists that are here," he told the socialist leader Norman Thomas.
~ Walter Isaacson
Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.
~ Walter Isaacson