If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the clever...
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
(pl. ) of Uncertainty
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain...
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.