Quotes About Challenge

You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.

He would do worse than his worst if he had to.

There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Come, captain, we had no leadership worthy of the name then, and we faced the cleverest opponent, the heaviest armor, the strongest force of all. Yet we won by the inevitability of history.

La forma más fácil de solucionar un problema es negar su existencia.

You can't maintain discipline that way." Mallow said icily, "I can. There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.

Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge.

Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

You might as well ask why the same man sprints safely across an obstacle course in the day, and falls over the furniture in his room at night.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quicksand and beating it with a stick.

All they have to do is refuse to believe it means death. The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

When you think of human history, you think of the occasional human being whose minority view may be condemned by society but who wins out in the end and changes the world. What chance is there on Gaia for the great rebels of history?

me gustaría recordarle que existe una diferencia entre la osadía y la ceguera. La acción decisiva está indicada cuando se conoce al enemigo y se pueden calcular aproximadamente los riesgos; pero moverse contra un potencial desconocido ya supone una osadía de por sí. Sería lo mismo que preguntar por qué un hombre salta con éxito en una carrera de obstáculos durante el día y tropieza con los muebles de su habitación por la noche.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

And one day he said, I'm going to see Hallam again. Bronowski's eyebrows lifted. What for? To have him turn me down. Yes, that's about your speed, Pete. You're unhappy if your troubles die down a bit.

An insolubility is not a problem.