![[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.](/assets/img/quote-photos/intellectual-courage-is-the-quality-that-allows-one-to-believe-in-ones-judgeme.jpg)
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courage men brave
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.
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When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part. Charles Stanley
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. David Seabury
courage men self
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. David McCullough
courage quality firsts
The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great
courage challenges world
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. Carl Lewis
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The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.
disappointment victory advancement
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.
disappointment choices discouragement
Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.
disappointment choices discouraged
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
disappointment optimistic choices
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
disappointment opportunity thinking
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. Al Pacino
disappointment believe confusion
A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying. Aiden Wilson Tozer
disappointment reality expectations
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing. Chogyam Trungpa
disappointment illusion results
Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
disappointment rejection actors
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. David Morrissey
believe book writing
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
believe hallucinations scrooge
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning Charles Dickens
believe remember cry
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
believe soul done
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
believe echoes sound
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.
believe adequate earth
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
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It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.