Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear diminishes in the light of knowledge."
Anaxagoras
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"Fear makes strangers of those who might be friends."
Aesop
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"What we fear most is our inability to control the mechanical processes of existence."
Leucippus
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"The human spirit rises highest when facing its greatest fear."
Pindar
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"Fear teaches us what we truly value"
Sappho
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"Fear dissolves when replaced with understanding."
Anaximenes
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"Fear is often the shadow of ignorance; knowledge dispels both."
Xenophanes
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"The warrior's true opponent is not the enemy, but his own doubt."
Pindar
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"The timid soul never discovers the beauty beyond the threshold of fear."
Aesop
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"Fear is born of ignorance."
Anaximander
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"Fear is only as real as we make it."
Anaximander
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"We must face our fears or they will control us forever."
Aristophanes
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Aristophanes
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"The person who fears death has not lived a full life."
Xenophanes
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"The fear we refuse to face eventually controls our entire life."
Xenophanes
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"To the man who is afraid everything rustles."
Sophocles
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"The fear that keeps a man from acting is often greater than the danger he fears."
Aristophanes
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"Better suffer once than live in fear."
Euripides
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"Fear is the most destructive of all human emotions."
Euripides
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"Our fear of the unknown diminishes when we study it with courage."
Anaximenes
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"Fear is the absence of understanding"
Empedocles
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"Better to die once than live in fear always"
Sophocles
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"To him who is in fear, everything rustles"
Sophocles
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"What we fear most often proves smaller when we face it directly"
Sophocles
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"The fear of death vanishes when one understands that nothing is ever truly destroyed."
Empedocles
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"The man who fears nothing is either a fool or a god."
Aristophanes
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"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on."
Frankie Boyle
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"The greatest fear is not of the unknown, but of remaining ignorant of the known."
Anaximander
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"The man who fears nothing fears death least, for he has already transcended fear."
Democritus
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"The mortal path leads ever deeper into confusion and shadow."
Parmenides