Fear Quotes

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

16356 quotes

G
"Fear is the absence of understanding."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I
"Fear is often the best teacher, if we let it be."
Isaiah Berlin
H
"Fear destroys freedom more effectively than any dictator."
Hannah Arendt
I
"We must learn to live with uncertainty rather than flee from it."
Isaiah Berlin
I
"Fear is the mind's way of protecting us, but it can also imprison us."
Isaiah Berlin
I
"Fear prevents us from living; courage allows us to."
Isaiah Berlin
B
"Fear cannot exist where there is hope."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Cowardice is the sadness born from thinking about our weakness."
Baruch Spinoza
G
"What we fear most often reveals our deepest truth"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
G
"Fear of the unknown prevents growth"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
J
"Fear is the enemy of progress and the friend of tyranny."
John Locke
T
"Fear and I were born twins."
Thomas Hobbes
D
"Fear is the parent of cruelty"
David Hume
G
"Fear arises when we confront the unknown aspects of ourselves."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
G
"Fear is the confrontation with the limit of one's being."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
B
"Despair is the pain arising from imagining something we love to be destroyed."
Baruch Spinoza
T
"Fear and I were born twins."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"Where fear is, there is shame."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"The greatest fear is the fear of death unjust and violent."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"Fear is the weapon of the tyrant; courage is the shield of the free."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
T
"Fear fades when you stand for something greater."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
J
"Fear is pain arising from the thought of future evil."
John Locke
I
"I am never afraid of what I know."
Immanuel Kant
I
"Fear is often the product of ignorance."
Immanuel Kant
D
"Fear is often the product of ignorance, and knowledge is its most effective remedy."
David Hume
T
"Fear is the weapon of tyrants; courage is the tool of the free."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
B
"Fear cannot coexist with hope in the same moment; one must yield to the other."
Baruch Spinoza
A
"To be the object of the contempt and abhorrence of the world is one of the most dreadful calamities that can befall a man."
Adam Smith
T
"Fear and I were born twins."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"The passion to be reckoned upon is fear."
Thomas Hobbes