Blind Courage Quotes

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Ignorance makes you very bold.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.