Quotes about risk
59 quotes from 51 people
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Idler (1758–1760), No. 57 (19 May 1759)
William James1842–1910The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
John Muir1838–1914Stickeen (1909), Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Servant of Peace: A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations (1962), p. 107Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve1670–1729Love for Love (1695), Act IV, scene xx
Napoleon1769–1821Statement at the beginning of the 1813 campaign, as quoted in The Mind of Napoleon (1955) by J. Christopher Herold, p. 45
Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831On War (1832), Book 1, Ch. 1
John Paul Jones1747–1792Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82
Helen Keller1880–1968Let Us Have Faith (1940), ch. “Faith Fears Not”, pp. 50–51; repr. in The Open Door (1957)- Helen Keller1880–1968Let Us Have Faith (1940), ch. “Faith Fears Not”, pp. 50–51; repr. in The Open Door (1957)
George Sorosborn 1930Soros on Soros (1995)Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 203
