“We praise people who insist on being themselves as courageous and independent—except when we blame them as selfish and narcissistic.” — Agnes Callard, “Torturing Geniuses,” The Point (2020-11-24)
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“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.” — Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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“The opposite to courage, as one endeavors to understand the problem in our particular age, is automaton conformity.” — Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself
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“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” — J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” — Karle Wilson Baker, Courage
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“No man’s a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage, and that’s the same thing.” — George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.” — Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.” — H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun (1923-02-12)
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