“The bravest person is the one who weighs up all the risks and when they have become greater than the object is worth, has the courage to turn back and to face the other risk of being called a coward.”
- Kurt Hahn
“This is the real core of everything I have to teach, be it in the wilderness or in a book. Judgment, I define judgment as the ability to relate a total experience to a specific activity. Learning judgment, assessing priorities, is as important as perfecting techniques; in fact the teaching of techniques (without commensurate judgment) can be dangerous.”
– Paul Petzoldt