Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it, we cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently."Wigner, Eugene
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."Bohr, Niels
"Innovation requires the courage to say no to the established order."Dirac, Paul
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."Einstein, Albert
"If someone feels that they had never made a mistake, it means they had never tried a new thing even once in their entire life."Einstein, Albert
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."Einstein, Albert
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."Einstein, Albert
"The physicist must accept the inexplicable and move forward."Weyl, Hermann
"Innovation requires courage to challenge established ideas."Weyl, Hermann
"The courage to admit ignorance is the hallmark of a true scientist."Wigner, Eugene
"Do not be afraid to pursue unconventional ideas; that is where discovery lies."Wigner, Eugene
"Intellectual courage means being willing to follow evidence wherever it leads."Wigner, Eugene
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Every scientific man in order to maintain his intellectual integrity must occasionally reject accepted dogma."Schrödinger, Erwin
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in its fundamental judgments; in the particular, one should not."Heisenberg, Werner
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."Bohr, Niels
"The greatest discoveries await those bold enough to question what everyone assumes to be true."Bohr, Niels
"The mathematician must be courageous in challenging accepted notions."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues."Hilbert, David
"Problem solving is the heart of intellectual courage."Hilbert, David
"One must have the courage to think differently."Hilbert, David
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."Einstein, Albert
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."Einstein, Albert
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Einstein, Albert
"Courage is facing your fears, not the absence of fear."Einstein, Albert
"Our understanding of the cosmos depends on the courage to question everything."Weyl, Hermann
"Courage is required to stand alone with an unpopular truth."Weyl, Hermann
"Understanding the universe requires both intellectual humility and intellectual courage."Wigner, Eugene
"A scientist who refuses to question established wisdom will never make a profound discovery."Wigner, Eugene
"Science advances when brave individuals challenge the consensus and follow where evidence leads."Wigner, Eugene