Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Life has to be dangerous.
Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart. . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.
Appearances are nothing. . . . And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville’s too dangerous.
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.
Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.