While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not with an eye on future opportunities therein lies the danger.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant given the context of any situation.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Learn from me if not by my precepts then by my example how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
If a little knowledge is dangerous where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
I will not nor will I ever publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self but I sure had to use my imagination.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love of will of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Next to power without honor the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
People crushed by laws have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.