Rene Dubos Quotes

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

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.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

no knowledge obtained without risk

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

What is life, but one long risk?

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.