Risk Quotes - page 7

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. (John Maynard Smith)
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ... View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances. View quote
Patrick Warburton
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies. View quote
Alan Watts
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. ... When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them. View quote
John Muir
No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. View quote
Ali
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? View quote
Jim Carrey
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. (Ray Bradbury)
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls. View quote
Carl Sagan
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature. View quote
Carl Jung
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. View quote
Theodor Herzl
The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is. View quote
Warren Buffett
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. View quote
Warren Buffett
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. View quote
Rubén Blades
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. View quote
Eric Clapton
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection. (Brené Brown)
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. View quote
Stendhal
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. View quote
Peter McWilliams
In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history. View quote
John Howard
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte