Foolish Fear Quotes

#1. One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

William Shakespeare

#3. A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

Richard Baxter

#4. Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

John G. Lake

#5. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

Raymond E. Feist

#6. XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And

Marcus Aurelius

#7. The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Swami Muktananda

#8. This is real power, real strength! Foolish humans, etch my name with fear! Me and, the name of this gun is <> ... <>!!

Reki Kawahara

#9. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.

Nancy Dunnan

#11. Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth.

Richard Llewellyn

#12. This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more.

R.A. Salvatore

#13. It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. At one time or another, most of us have felt trapped by things we find ourselves thinking or doing, caught by our own impulses or foolish choices; ensnared in some unhappiness or fear; imprisoned by our own history. We feel unable to go forward and yet we believe that there must be a way.

Stephen Grosz

#15. I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

Ruth Rendell

#16. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

#19. But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.

Jody Hedlund

#20. To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Dean Koontz

#22. Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#24. Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Erica Jong

#25. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

#26. It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

George MacDonald

#27. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#28. It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.

Masashi Kishimoto

#29. 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

#30. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#31. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Josh Linkner

#32. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Kyra Davis