“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle166
Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”
L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766 <br class="br">Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
“When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
The New Gods (1969)
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist