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
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"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Bohr, Niels
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"Innovation requires the courage to say no to the established order."
Dirac, Paul
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Einstein, Albert
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"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
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Einstein, Albert
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."
Einstein, Albert
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"The physicist must accept the inexplicable and move forward."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Innovation requires courage to challenge established ideas."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The courage to admit ignorance is the hallmark of a true scientist."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Do not be afraid to pursue unconventional ideas; that is where discovery lies."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Intellectual courage means being willing to follow evidence wherever it leads."
Wigner, Eugene
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"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
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"Every scientific man in order to maintain his intellectual integrity must occasionally reject accepted dogma."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in its fundamental judgments; in the particular, one should not."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Bohr, Niels
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"The greatest discoveries await those bold enough to question what everyone assumes to be true."
Bohr, Niels
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"The mathematician must be courageous in challenging accepted notions."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues."
Hilbert, David
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"Problem solving is the heart of intellectual courage."
Hilbert, David
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"One must have the courage to think differently."
Hilbert, David
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Einstein, Albert
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Einstein, Albert
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Einstein, Albert
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"Courage is facing your fears, not the absence of fear."
Einstein, Albert
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"Our understanding of the cosmos depends on the courage to question everything."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Courage is required to stand alone with an unpopular truth."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Understanding the universe requires both intellectual humility and intellectual courage."
Wigner, Eugene
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"A scientist who refuses to question established wisdom will never make a profound discovery."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Science advances when brave individuals challenge the consensus and follow where evidence leads."
Wigner, Eugene