 | "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
- Bertrand Russell
, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish". |
| "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dorothy Bernard
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| "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
- Dr. David M. Burns
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| "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
- Edmund Burke
, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756. |
| "It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."
- Eric Hoffer
, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954. |
| "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
- Eric Hoffer
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| "None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."
- Ferdinand Foch
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| "Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
- Francis Quarles
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| "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
- George Sewell
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| "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
, Aphorisms, 1905. |