Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

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"The mind that cannot conceive of infinite space is shackled by fear."
Hipparchus
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"We must face our fears as a warrior faces battle—with resolve and preparation."
Pericles
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"Fear of war is frequently justified fear."
Xenophon
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Thucydides
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"Fear makes men cruel rather than kind."
Thucydides
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"Fear of the unknown often causes greater harm than the unknown itself."
Galen
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"Fear is the mind's prison; courage is its liberation."
Xenophon
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"Men are suspicious of sudden attacks and secret movements."
Thucydides
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"The fear of poverty can drive men to act against their nature."
Thucydides
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"When fear takes hold, reason departs."
Thucydides
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"Envy is a powerful emotion that can destroy a person"
Herodotus
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"Fear is the most powerful emotion"
Herodotus
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"Healing is impossible in the presence of fear."
Hippocrates
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Pindar
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"He who fears death dies every day."
Xenophon
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"What we fear reveals what we love."
Thucydides
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"The greatest enemy is not without, but within."
Thucydides
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Herodotus
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"Fear loses its grip when we understand what truly threatens us and what does not."
Hippocrates
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"Fear is the phantom that gains power only through belief in its reality."
Pindar
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"Fear whispers lies; courage speaks the truth with quiet confidence."
Pindar
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"Fear whispers that we are inadequate; courage responds that we are enough."
Xenophon
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"It is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason only in examining what they fear."
Thucydides
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"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions."
Thucydides
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths."
Herodotus
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"What we fear most reveals what we love most."
Herodotus
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"Fear is the tax we pay for caring deeply about anything."
Sappho
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"Fear is the invisible chain that binds the potential of countless souls."
Pindar
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"Fear is the prison from which courage alone can provide the key."
Pindar
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"Fear yields to knowledge."
Anaxagoras