hesitation quotes

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.