Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Extremes are dangerous.

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.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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

Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.

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

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

All extremes are dangerous.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

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

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.