Worldly Wisdom Quotes

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― Josh Kaufman, Worldly Wisdom: Collected Quotations and Aphorisms

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
— Benjamin Franklin, early American political leader, scientist, and polymath”
― Josh Kaufman, Worldly Wisdom: Collected Quotations and Aphorisms

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
— Oscar Wilde, writer and poet”
― Josh Kaufman, Worldly Wisdom: Collected Quotations and Aphorisms