Famous Quotes

"In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past."

Daniel Dennett on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

  Nelson Mandela on Courage

• "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

  Winston Churchill on Courage

• "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

  Ronald Reagan on Courage

More quotes by Daniel Dennett

• "Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'"

• "The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."

• "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"