Freethinkers use their minds without prejudice and fear to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs. It’s rare but essential.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
—Georg Hegel
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
—Mark Twain
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
—Søren Kierkegaard
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
—Seneca
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
—Thomas Jefferson
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson
Do not fear death.
—Miyamoto Musashi
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
—Julius Caesar
“There is no fear of our not being watered when Jesus undertakes to do it. He will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.”
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
—Julius Caesar
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
Faith will set you up above the fear of man, and enable you to rejoice in being accounted a fool for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
—Plato
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
It is fear and terror that makes all men brave, except the philosophers.
—Socrates
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
—Sun Tzu
I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
—Aristotle
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
—Henry David Thoreau
So fear not, you who are like Joseph when the archers shot at him and wounded him (for the archers know all the tenderest places in our souls at which to shoot). Trust the love that upheld Joseph.
—Amy Carmichael
If you truly fear God, you need fear none beside.
—John Wesley
One more, I exhort you that fear God and work righteousness, you that are servants of God.
—John Wesley
What is their power, my Lord, to Thee?
Shadows of fear, oh, flee away;
I hear my Captain calling me—
Where is the night? ’Tis dawn, ’tis day.
—Amy Carmichael
O may I grow in the fear and love of God and Christ and may I be an habitation of God through the Spirit, 1 Cor 6:1.
—William Wilberforce
We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.
—Amy Carmichael
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
—Mark Twain
Was very fearful lest I should admit some vain thought, and so lose the sense I then had of divine things. O for an abiding heavenly temper!
—David Brainerd
I enjoyed much more intenseness, fervency, and spirituality, than I expected; God was better to me than my fears.
—David Brainerd