"An idea that isn't risky is hardly..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
More by Oscar Wilde
“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.”
“I live in terror of not being misunderstood.”
“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”
More on Ideas
“A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.”
“You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.”
“If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
More on Risk
“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”