A Quote by Erwin Rommel

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

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Erwin Rommel
German - Military man
November 15, 1891 - October 14, 1944

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead

Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

Louis Pasteur

Courage is the antidote to danger.

Erle Stanley Gardner

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Karl Marx

Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

Jack Ohman

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

Timothy Leary

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Andrew Mellon

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Peter Drucker

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

Royal Robbins

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

Seamus Heaney

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Lawrence Summers

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

Megan Whalen Turner

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Milton Friedman

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