„The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest.“

„Well, this is the time for bold measures.“

—  Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

PENN Address (2004)
Contexte: Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute."
Well, this is the time for bold measures.

„You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,'I am here, I am here, I am here.'"“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, livre Le Breakfast du champion

Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Contexte: It was Trout’s fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, "What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man’s first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.'"

„The system of fortification by wall and towers may be made safest by the addition of earthen ramparts.“

—  Vitruvius, livre De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V, Sec. 5

„I am saying that truth may certainly be true whatever my opinion may be, but it has no authority with me until I perceive it to be true.“

—  Leslie Weatherhead English theologian 1893 - 1976

Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.56

„When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.“

—  Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

„When the spirit touches
man's heart and brow
with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,
so that with clear eyes he will face the world
as a free man may“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
Contexte: When the spirit touches
man's heart and brow
with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,
so that with clear eyes he will face the world
as a free man may;
when the spirit gives birth to action
by which alone we stand or fall;
when from the sane and resolute action
rises the workd that gives a a man's life
content and meaning — then would that many,
lonely and actively working,
know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him...

„"I would rather err with the majority than in my own way." So thought St Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.“

—  Karlheinz Deschner German writer and activist 1924 - 2014

Ich will lieber mit den meisten irren als auf meine Weise. So dachte Augustinus. Ich denke umgekehrt.
deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/de/person/zitate.htm

„Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.“

—  Katharine Hepburn film, stage, and television actress 1907 - 2003

„In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. The circumstances are in a great measure new. We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. At best we can only follow the spirit of their proceeding in other cases.“

—  Edmund Burke, livre Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Volume i, p. 516
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Contexte: The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man. This is felt. The quarrel is begun between the Representatives and the People. The Court Faction have at length committed them. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. The circumstances are in a great measure new. We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. At best we can only follow the spirit of their proceeding in other cases.

„Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.“

—  Jane Austen, livre Orgueil et Préjugés

Source: Pride and Prejudice

„Return London. Safest route.“

—  Greg Rucka, Queen & Country

Queen and Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 2

„Law is the safest helmet.“

—  Edward Coke English lawyer and judge 1552 - 1634

Inscription in rings given by Coke to several of his friends on June 20, 1606, in anticipation of his judicial investiture; reported in Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke (1826) p. 75. Derived from a latin maxim, Lex est tutissima cassis; sub clypeo legis nemo decipitur: Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived.

„Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold
And the mate of the Nancy brig,
And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite
And the crew of the captain's gig.“

—  W. S. Gilbert English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836 - 1911

The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell". Compare: There were three sailors of Bristol city
Who took a boat and went to sea.
But first with beef and captain's biscuits
And pickled pork they loaded she.
There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy,
And the youngest he was little Billee.
Now when they got as far as the Equator
They'd nothing left but one split pea.
W. M. Thackeray: Little Billee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.“

—  W. Somerset Maugham, livre Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45

„Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.“

—  Anthony Doerr, livre All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

„Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.“

—  Carl von Clausewitz, livre De la guerre

On War (1832), Book 3

„A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold.  The general who allows himself to be bound and hampered by regulations is unlikely to win a battle.“

—  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell senior officer of the British Army 1883 - 1950

I – The Good General.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)

„Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livre Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 3
Contexte: Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

„Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. … It is at the same time a training in boldness. … It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions“

—  Leo Strauss Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism 1899 - 1973

“What is liberal education,” p. 8
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)