Virginia Woolf Quotes

Extremes are dangerous.

Balance is overrated.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

If you're too high, it can hurt you. If you're too low, it can hurt you. I try to stay even-keel.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.