Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"To challenge established theory requires courage equal to creating new theory."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The scientist who fears being wrong will never be truly right."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"To persist in investigation despite skepticism is courage in its purest form."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Courage grows stronger each time we exercise it."
Gilbert Lewis
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"We must be brave enough to abandon comfortable errors for uncomfortable truths."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Science advances when individuals have the courage to challenge consensus."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it through reason."
Robert Boyle
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"The search for truth requires the courage to be wrong."
Robert Boyle
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"The important thing is to know how to take all things that happen to us, whether good or bad, and to turn them to our account."
Michael Faraday
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"Fear of failure paralyzes the mind; courage awakens it."
Michael Faraday
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"Let no one discourage your pursuit of truth, no matter how unconventional."
Michael Faraday
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"Belief in oneself is the first step toward discovery."
August Kekulé
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"Courage is the willingness to pursue truth, wherever it leads."
August Kekulé
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"Fear is the enemy of discovery; courage is its friend."
August Kekulé
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"The pursuit of truth requires courage to face uncomfortable conclusions."
Jacques Charles
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"Innovation requires the courage to be wrong in pursuit of being right."
Jacques Charles
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"In the face of the unknown, the courageous mind finds inspiration."
Jacques Charles
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"The greatest scientific advances come from the greatest courage to challenge convention."
Jacques Charles
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"Progress demands that we question what others accept without examination."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Fear of the unknown should not prevent us from seeking truth."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Those devoted to truth must be willing to stand alone against prevailing opinion."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Those who seek knowledge must be prepared to have their certainties challenged."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"The pursuit of understanding requires surrendering attachment to comfortable falsehoods."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"To doubt is not weakness but the first step toward certainty."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"To abandon calculation is to abandon certainty for the comfort of assumption."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The mind's greatest power is its capacity to question."
Robert Boyle
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"Doubt is the beginning of inquiry, not its conclusion."
Robert Boyle
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"To question authority with evidence is an act of virtue, not rebellion."
Robert Boyle
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"I would rather be a little nobody then to be a evil somebody."
Michael Faraday