Lou Harrison Quotes

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

Good counsel is good for him that will do thereafter.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

The power of uncontrollable decision is of the most delicate and dangerous nature.

I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful.

We have to be aware of our profile all the time now, there are cameras everywhere. It can be difficult at times, we are young men after all. But we know we have to be careful. We have to be responsible.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.