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Small exercise breaks proven to be beneficial to health.

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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Why should you check it out? Because good news should be heard.

Today's quote comes from André Gide, French Nobel Prize laureate, author of more than fifty books, described in his New York Times obituary as France's greatest contemporary man of letters. A lifelong advocate of intellectual freedom whose writings were placed on the Vatican's Index of Forbidden Books. A man who spent eight decades questioning, exploring, and refusing to settle into comfortable certainty.

In his final book, written in his eighties, he said:

”Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

Two sentences. Each one a compass bearing for how to navigate a world saturated with people who are absolutely certain they are right.
Believe those who are seeking the truth, is an act of trust extended toward intellectual humility. The seeker arrives with open hands. They have more questions more than answers. They are willing to be wrong, willing to revise, willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads even when it leads somewhere uncomfortable. That openness is the hallmark of genuine inquiry and it is, Gide argues, worthy of your trust.
Doubt those who find it is the harder instruction. And the more necessary one.
Think about the voices in the world that speak with absolute certainty. The ideologue who has perfectly mapped the cause of all social problems and knows precisely who is to blame.
The guru who has unlocked the definitive secret of a meaningful life and will share it with you for a price. The politician who has identified the complete truth about a complex issue and feels no need to acknowledge its complications. The algorithm that serves you content confirming exactly what you already believe until the world looks simple and your certainty feels righteous.
Every one of them has found the truth. And every one of them, Gide warns, deserves your doubt.
Because here's what the certainty of finding conceals: reality is complex. Human beings are complex. The questions that matter most about how to live, how to govern, what is right, what is true… do not resolve into clean, final answers.
The person who tells you they have resolved them entirely has stopped engaging with the question. They have replaced inquiry with conclusion. And a person with a conclusion, held too tightly, stops thinking.
Gide's full original passage continues: ”doubt everything, but don't doubt yourself.” That third clause is the anchor. The call to doubt certainty isn't a descent into paralysis or nihilism. It's the opposite. A call to keep your own mind active, your own judgement alive, your own inquiry open. Don't outsource your thinking to anyone who claims to have already finished it.
The seekers keep you honest. The finders make you comfortable. Gide knew which one to trust.
So here's the question: Who are you currently listening to whose voice are you giving weight and trust and are they a seeker or a finder?
Because the finders are everywhere. They are loud, they are confident, and their certainty feels like safety in an uncertain world.
But Gide spent eighty years showing us that the safety is an illusion. The seeker's open question is more honest and more useful than the finder's closed answer.
Believe those who are seeking. Doubt those who find it. And above all eep thinking for yourself.
That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
May 20, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Michelangelo – “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
May 19, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Robert Frost – “The only way out is through.”
May 18, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Naval Ravikant – “It’s not 10,000 hours. It’s 10,000 iterations.”
May 17, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
May 16, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower – “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”
May 15, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lupita Nyong’o – “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”
May 14, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
May 13, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Laurie Buchanan – “What we don’t change, we choose.”
May 12, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
John C. Maxwell – “Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it but what we become by it.”
May 11, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
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Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News

The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Keep looking for the good in the world, because it is not only there – its everywhere.

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

Turning Off Bad Genes

How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

China’s Gigantic Battery

How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
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Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
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Self-Spreading CRISPR and the Sun Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
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Cancer-Eating Bacteria, 10-Passenger Flying Taxis, and the First Moon Harvest
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Can We Bottle the Sun? Plus the AI Tool Outperforming Doctors in Rare Disease Diagnosis
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Lower Crime and More Energy
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Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
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Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
February 21, 2026
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    André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 20, 2026

    Michelangelo – “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 19, 2026

    Robert Frost – “The only way out is through.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 18, 2026

    Naval Ravikant – “It’s not 10,000 hours. It’s 10,000 iterations.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 17, 2026
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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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    April 14, 2026
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