Rex Stout Quotes

What you don't know can hurt you.

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

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

Living safely is dangerous.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

He that's secure is not safe.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

No one knows enough to worry.

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

Theories then are dangerous things.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

What you don't know will hurt you.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.