That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. – Merle Shain
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. – Virgil
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. – Mason Cooley
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating. – Andrew Cohen
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. – Miles Davis
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. – George Sewell
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. – Henry Van Dyke
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. – Sophocles
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. – George W. Bush
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. – Warren Farrell
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. – Tertullian
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. – Dorothy Day
