“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Variant: ... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
“Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction.”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 283)
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Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves
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Context: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
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Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
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“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
“It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
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Karl Barth book Church Dogmatics
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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Context: The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.
