Sebastian Junger Quotes

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

As I grow older and I don't run so fast, I'm not so eager to get myself in situations where I'm going to have to run.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

You just always have to protect yourself. Try not to take any unnecessary hits.

When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Experience is a safe guide.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.