No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
Interpretation
Great accomplishments require us to embrace uncertainty and risk.
This quote emphasizes that significant actions, whether personal or societal, often come with doubts and a lack of absolute certainty. It highlights the importance of courage and willingness to act despite the unknown outcomes that may lie ahead.
In practice
This quote can inspire students who are hesitant to take risks in their personal projects.
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.
I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.
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