Leonard Nimoy Quotes

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

What you don't know can hurt you.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

What you don't know will hurt you.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

We need to be able to make decisions even though part of the information that we have is incorrect and wrong.

Report makes dangers greater then they be.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Theories then are dangerous things.

I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.

Living safely is dangerous.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.