The Wise Man Fear Quotes

#1. If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

Anne McCaffrey

#3. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.

Edward Rutherfurd

#4. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

Jennifer Melzer

#6. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Laozi

#8. For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Plato

#9. The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. My Alar is like the ocean in a storm.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

Socrates

#12. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.

R. Scott Bakker

#13. Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. The

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Confucius

#15. 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

#16. Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#17. My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Man must have fear factor. other wise he is mere animal with sound health and body.

Yssubramanyam

#20. 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

#21. Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.

Tim O'Brien

#22. Frank Herbert said that Fear is the mind-killer. He was a wise man.

Kevin Hearne

#23. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. Why are you smiling?'
'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

Charles Blair

#26. My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#28. I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

#29. The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Sun Tzu