fear Quotes

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.