Courage Quotes

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

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"One must be willing to abandon comfortable certainties to progress toward greater understanding."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"To advance knowledge, one must have courage to challenge established certainties."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"The pursuit of truth requires honesty and intellectual courage."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The pursuit of truth requires constant questioning."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Truth demands our allegiance despite personal cost."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Fear of the unknown dissolves when we illuminate it with reason."
Church, Alonzo
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Church, Alonzo
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"Fear is the mind-killer; courage is the mind's liberation."
Poincaré, Henri
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"The only true failure is the failure to try."
Poincaré, Henri
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"To be brave is not to be fearless, but to act despite fear."
Poincaré, Henri
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"The courage to be is the fundamental virtue of human existence."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Every act of creation requires a moment of courage."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Courage is acting despite uncertainty."
Dummett, Michael
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"I like people who take the right side even when it is not the popular side."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The study of formal systems teaches humility before the vastness of mathematical truth."
Church, Alonzo
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"Mathematical abstraction is an act of intellectual courage and vision."
Church, Alonzo
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but right action in the face of fear."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's views from being misrepresented."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Achievement requires accepting risk and uncertainty."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumph over it."
Jackson, Frank
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"To be a scientist or logician is to commit oneself to the pursuit of understanding over comfort."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The pursuit of truth requires not just intelligence but also intellectual honesty and courage."
Tarski, Alfred
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"We must not allow ourselves to be intimidated by the apparent failure of psychological tests of machine intelligence."
Turing, Alan
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"Suicide is a form of philosophical despair, a rejection of the rational order."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to question everything, even our own certainties."
Gödel, Kurt
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"In the face of incompleteness, the mathematician must choose: despair or wonder."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The courage to begin is often greater than the strength to continue"
Jackson, Frank
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"Courage is not fearlessness but moving forward with fear as a companion"
Jackson, Frank