Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize; quoted in The Independent, London (9 December 1989)
Context: There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train
Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 72
“An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.”
Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) United States Secretary of War
The Bomb and the Opportunity (March 1946)
“In leadership, no word is more important than trust.”
Mike Krzyzewski (1947) American basketball player and coach
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 98.
Rupert Boneham (1964) American mentor, television personality, and politician
Rupert on the Issues (2011)
“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde
Book ii, line 470
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
