Virginia Woolf Quotes

Very dangerous things, theories.

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

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

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Truth is often attended with danger

If you guys don’t go through the enemy in six weeks, we’ll disown you. But then the hard work begins... We have lit a fuse, and we don’t know what’s at the other end- a nuke, a hand grenade, or a dud?

The warnings of the last 4 years have been ignored. As a result, every single alternative before us is accompanied by grave risks.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Liberty is dangerous.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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