Fear Quotes - Page 39

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.