“the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.”

— Robin Hobb, book Fool's Fate

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

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“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”

Helen Keller book Optimism

Optimism (1903)

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

"The Power of One", TIME Magazine (26 August 2002) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003125,00.html

“Everyone believes in zero as a number, but we always ignore it when counting. We start at one.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of understanding.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 57, “Becoming Philosophical” (p. 226)

“… the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger….”

Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer

Source: Sphinx's Princess

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 236

“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.”

Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) Brazilian racing driver

Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlKNyopKUI<br><br>The actual interview footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViXeYxHfYiw

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

"The Power of One", Time Magazine (26 August 2002)

“the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.”

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