“[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.”
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Joseph Brodsky17
Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature la… 1940–1996Related quotes
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1980s
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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.
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George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
"On My Friendly Critics"
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