Quotes About Harmful

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless—or even actually harmful.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

But the larger point is that we can now see that depriving systems of stressors, vital stressors, is not necessarily a good thing, and can be downright harmful.

We are fragilizing social and economic systems by denying them stressors and randomness, putting them in the Procrustean bed of cushy and comfortable—but ultimately harmful—modernity.

Every additional glass of wine harms you more than the preceding one

we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.

We can also see from the turkey story the mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence

is much easier to understand if something is harmed by volatility—hence fragile—than try to forecast harmful events, such as these oversized Black Swans. But only practitioners (or people who do things) tend to spontaneously get the point.

Goddard is as corrosive as acid hurled in the eye.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

If a man imagined that I was his arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere imagination. Imaginary conditions do exist and they may be just as real and just as harmful or dangerous as physical conditions. I even believe that psychic disturbances are far more dangerous than epidemics [of physical disease] or earthquakes.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

El amor es un veneno. Un veneno dulce, sí, pero un veneno que mata.