“[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.”
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Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature la… 1940–1996Related quotes
Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 3 (p. 14)
“If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.”
Said to a group of British students in China in 1986, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1980s
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
"Robert Lewandowski, a force for Bayern Munich, faces an uphill climb with underdog Poland" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/16/robert-lewandowski-poland-euro-2020/ (June 16, 2021)
“Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.”
Original German text: "Zweifle nicht an dem der dir sagt er hat Angst, aber hab Angst vor dem der dir sagt, er kennt keinen Zweifel."
from "100 Gedichte ohne Vaterland", pub. 1978.
As quoted in Good Advice (1982) by William Safire and Leonard Safir. Original appearance in Holiday magazine, March 1956, pp. 40-51.
"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)