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Quotes About Fear

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.
~ Candice Swanepoel
The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.
~ Susan Jeffers
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
~ William S. Burroughs
When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.
~ Rebecca Pippert
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
~ Ludwig Borne
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
~ E. W. Howe
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.
~ Oliver Smithies
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.
~ Carl Sagan
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~ William Davenant
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
~ Julian Assange
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
~ John Dewey
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.
~ Frederick Lenz
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.
~ Paul Valery
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
~ Socrates, Apology
The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.
~ Simon Blackburn
Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
~ George W. Bush
It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.
~ Randall Dale Adams
Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.
~ Julie Kagawa
no knowledge obtained without risk
~ Stephen King