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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

— Antony Beevor

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

— Richard Diebenkorn

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

— Rowan Williams

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

— J. J. Abrams

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

— A. E. Waite

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

— Al Pacino

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

— Marie Lu

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

— Ruth Rendell

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

— Daniel Kahneman

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

✗Opposing Perspectives

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

— Rachel Cusk