Courage Quote by Stephen Crane

“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.”

— James C. Dobson

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“... he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.”

— Henry James

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“he had no doubt that spirited debate was the first casualty of any war. —”

— Helen Simonson