Fear always springs from ignorance.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
The other side of every fear is a freedom.
Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
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