Richard Whately Quotes

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

He that's secure is not safe.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

We think that we are invincible because we are.