Source: Book 3, Chapter 3 “The Conjunction of the Million Spheres” (pp. 379-380), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
Context: “Danger? It depends what you regard as dangerous. Some wisdom may be dangerous to one man and not to another.”
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
Two in the Bush (1966)
Context: We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners. We have not bothered to acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of gardening. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. We go on, year after year, all over the world, creating dust bowls and erosion, cutting down forests and overgrazing our grasslands, polluting one of our most vital commodities — water — with industrial filth and all the time we are breeding with the ferocity of the Brown Rat, and wondering why there is not enough food to go round. We now stand so aloof from nature that we think we are God. This has always been a dangerous supposition.
“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”
Source: Sins of the Night
“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”
Variant: Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
"Dick Cole: The Last Doolittle Raider" https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/dick-cole-the-last-doolittle-raider/ (2017)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1935/mar/11/defence in the House of Commons (11 March 1935). Attlee's concluding observation was met by Conservative cries of "Hear, hear", with one MP shouting "Tell that to Hitler" according to The Times of 12 March 1935.
1930s
