Top 100 Fear Wisdom Quotes
#1. but where does this nobility come from? Generosity or fear? Wisdom or ignorance?
Devdutt Pattanaik
#2. I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.
Shannon A. Thompson
#3. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#4. Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear; it travels everywhere; it learns some things from everything and this is the secret of water's wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.
Steven Erikson
#7. Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
Molly Friedenfeld
#8. Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.
The earth will dance, peace to share.
Debasish Mridha
#9. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.
Ted Naifeh
#10. Someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught.
Nikki Rowe
#12. I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-"
"I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility.
Harper Lee
#13. Whenever you see the fear and sadness,
be there the source of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Plato
#15. Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
Jack Kornfield
#16. It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
Pema Chodron
#17. Life is a daring adventure, without fear, be ready to enjoy the twists and turns.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Life expands when you dare and share. Life shrinks when you seek consistency and fear.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.
Vincent De Paul
#21. Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.
Louise Penny
#23. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. 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
#25. Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.
Marguerite Duras
#26. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
#27. There is no stress, anxiety or fear; it's our mind's game with our heart to dare.
Change your perception and don't let your mind wander.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.
Neil Gaiman
#29. Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
#30. Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?
Watchman Nee
#31. Fear and courage are only our perceptions. Replace the thought of fear with the thought of courage and fear will fly away.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Proverbs 15:33 33 Fear of the LORD teaches wisdom; humility precedes honor.
Anonymous
#34. Those who take risks and dare are considered dangerous by those who fear.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Look at me; look at me.
Can you see; can you see?
I am here; you are there.
No more fear; no more fear.
In our heart; in our mind
We are smart; we are kind.
We will find; we fill find
Joyful heart and blissful mind.
Debasish Mridha
#36. You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever ... but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.
Suzanne Palmieri
#38. But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.
William Kennedy
#39. There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Gabriel De Tarde
#42. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
#43. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Bible KJV
#44. Caution is always prudent. But we mustn't let fear pave the way of our feet." -Riyah
Jackie Castle
#45. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#46. If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.
Debasish Mridha
#48. PROV 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Anonymous
#49. Fear is the anticipation of pain; it most often never becomes true.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Anger has great strength,
but no brains.
Greed has many hands,
but no heart.
Fear has many titles,
but no honor.
Hate has many forms,
but no soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.
Fear it or not, it is happening already.
Charles Eisenstein
#54. Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.
Aubrey Dark
#55. It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
Carl Jung
#56. Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
Jodi Picoult
#57. Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience.
Eric Greitens
#58. There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of wisdom, for it is wise to know one's place in this world...and in the next.
Cheryl Zelenka
#59. After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.
Rick Riordan
#60. If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.
Lao-Tzu
#61. Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.
Sharon Kirstin
#62. Because when I dream, I feel no fear,
And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self.
Nikki Rowe
#63. When we seek to understand what another appreciates about their own way of life, and when we take the chance to see their life and the beauty of their culture though their eyes, this action and choice can eliminate feelings of both fear and separation and bond us deeply.
Jasmuheen
#64. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.
Brent Jones
#65. Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.
Abhijit Naskar
#66. An inspired life is spontaneous. There is no fear; it is courageous.
Debasish Mridha
#67. When you love yourself, you don't fear to take responsibility of life.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.
Roopleen
#69. Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone.
Jury Nel
#71. Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.
Raphael Zernoff
#72. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.
Mark Waid
#73. Well, that's Philosophy I've read,
And Law and Medicine, and I fear
Theology, too, from A to Z;
Hard studies all, that have cost me dear.
And so I sit, poor silly man
No wiser now than when I began.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#75. Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.
The Bhagavad Gita
#77. If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.
James A. Moore
#78. Your dreams will be your reality if you don't fear them and have enough courage to act on them.
Debasish Mridha
#79. We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
Napoleon Hill
#81. You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
#83. The biggest risk in life is to fear and not to take any.
Debasish Mridha
#84. You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. Lewis
#86. Nothing is more important than you,
so don't fear or feel stress, whatever you do.
Debasish Mridha
#87. I don't belong in this world, I am merely a traveller passing through, I repudiate to silence my thought, because they fear my light.
Nikki Rowe
#88. Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
Pico Iyer
#89. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#90. Less fear, more courage.
Less doubt, more faith.
Less talking, more action.
Less ignorance, more knowledge.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#91. When fear overwhelms truth and love, we call it pain. Our spirit as women has all the knowledge and power we need to give birth and to nurture our babies. It is in our genetic coding. It has been there since the beginning of time. You can trust its wisdom.
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
#92. Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.
Suzy Kassem
#93. I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Albert Einstein
#95. As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.
Raphael Zernoff
#96. A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
Georgette Heyer
#97. Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.
Debasish Mridha
#98. The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.
Sri Chinmoy
#99. It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.
Napoleon Hill
#100. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
