“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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“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”
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.
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Source: Ancillary Justice (2013), Chapter 11 (p. 155)
“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766
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.”
The New Gods (1969)
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”