“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
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