Discouraged Quote by Napoleon Hill

Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion…There is much to be gained from the discovery that one…

— David Mermin

Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from…

— Harriet Martineau

To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.

— Moyra Davey

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web…

— Anonymous

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

— Shakti Gawain

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this…

— George Berkeley

“One realizes that everything about the world that seems so unexceptional and drearily predictable is in fact charged with an immense and imponderable mystery.…

— David Bentley Hart

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time that we…

— Peter Brook

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our…

— Sam Keen

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

— Donald Rumsfeld

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of…

— Paulo Coelho