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Quotes About Wisdom

The understanding of fear cures fear.
~ Robert Anthony
Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
~ Laozi
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
~ Ben Jonson
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
~ Doris Lessing
People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
~ George Herbert
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
~ George R. R. Martin
To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.
~ Ginn Hale
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.
~ Helen Van Slyke
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
~ Herman Melville
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
~ Horace
As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.
~ Jacqui Holland
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~ Plato
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
~ Warren Buffett
Fear could never make a virtue.
~ Voltaire
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
~ Unknown
When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
~ Sophocles
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
~ Jean Kerr
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
~ John Witherspoon
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
~ Frances Newton
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~ Arnold Glasow