Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear teaches caution; cowardice teaches only servitude."
Robert Boyle
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"Fear is but the shadow of ignorance."
Michael Faraday
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"Fear is the enemy of progress, both in science and in life."
Jacques Charles
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"The man who is afraid of losing his job is incapable of doing it well."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"Fear of failure has hindered more discoveries than failure itself."
August Kekulé
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"I have found that those who fear failure never discover what success truly means."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"The man who fears making mistakes has already made the greatest one."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"The fear of failure should not prevent one from pursuing what one loves."
Caroline Herschel
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"Those who fear the unknown cannot advance human understanding."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Fear is nothing but an illusion constructed by those who refuse to face reality."
Leonhard Euler
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"Fear is conquered by understanding that most of it lives only in our minds."
Leonhard Euler
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"Fear is the enemy of progress."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Fear is the shadow cast by ignorance."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The fear of making mistakes prevents us from making discoveries."
Leonhard Euler
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"Fear is overcome by knowledge; ignorance is fear's fertile soil."
Leonhard Euler
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"Despair is the absolute extreme of melancholy."
René Descartes
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"Fear is the enemy of discovery."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Fear diminishes in the face of knowledge."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Those who fear mathematics fear the very foundation upon which reality is built."
Archimedes
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"Fear arises from ignorance; knowledge dispels it."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Fear is the absence of understanding."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love."
René Descartes
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"Fear is the tax we pay for imagining futures that may never arrive."
René Descartes
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"The fear of being wrong should never prevent the search for what is right."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Fear often prevents us from pursuing our highest aspirations."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Fear diminishes when we understand its causes."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Fear is the absence of understanding; knowledge is its cure."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Fear of the unknown diminishes when knowledge illuminates the darkness."
Christiaan Huygens