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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.


Livy

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.

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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that...
INGRID HOLTBY Too often, we allow fear, worry, and doubt to dominate and define our lives. We allow them to steal ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
HEATHER BROOKE Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLE We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out o...
MITCH DANIELS Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
ARNOLD GLASGOW Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casu...
THOMAS HOBBES Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.
MATT MARTY We have to confront ignorance in our nation.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because...
CASSANDRA CLARE Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
WILLIAM HAZLITT While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in p...
DOROTHEA DIX The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
BRIAN TRACY Fear always springs from ignorance
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fear always springs from ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
EDMUND BURKE Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
DAVID FURNISH Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.
LIU CIXIN Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHAL The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears
STENDHAL With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.
KATHLEEN PATEL Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble an...
E.M. FORSTER ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough time...
CHRISTENE HOUSTON Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
GARTH NIX Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.
ABHIJIT NASKAR A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
JEREMY TAYLOR A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, prec...
EMIL M. CIORAN Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, prec...
EMILE M. CIORAN Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
DAVID FURNISH Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON لا شئ يقتل الفكر مثل الخوف (ولا شئ يقوي الخوف مثل الجهل)
أحمد مستجير Fear and realization of ignorance were strong medicines against stupid pride.
GARTH NIX Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
SENECA Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who t...
C. S. LEWIS Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCE We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be ...
C. JOYBELL C. Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE PAGLIA Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ...
GEORGE ELIOT We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exa...
EARL NIGHTINGALE We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exa...
EARL NIGHTINGALE We don't fear them, we respect them, but we will be giving it our best shot and trying to get someth...
JAMES QUINN A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid...
THOMAS MERTON The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid...
THOMAS MERTON We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely o...
SHARON SALZBERG We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the...
JOHN WHEELER We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does th...
JOHN A. WHEELER Our staff has not grown in proportion to the number of increases in the student population.
CAROL LANG The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes...
BRENNAN MANNING The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant thi...
THOMAS MERTON If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ...
THOMAS MERTON Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowabl...
AMBROSE BIERCE I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the Br...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We're not growing our reserves in proportion to our company. That's what drives (rate increases).
MARK STINNEFORD We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being awa...
GERALD BRENAN We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being awa...
GERALD BRENAN We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
WARREN WEAVER Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we ...
DANIELLE ESPLIN We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or...
ERICH FROMM There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
JOHN C. COLLINS The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
YUSUF ISLAM Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experienc...
BOB HOFFMAN Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
EDWARD ALBERT We must travel in the direction of our fear.
JOHN BERRYMAN Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm.

"That depends on whether a man re...
GEORGE MACDONALD We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
EMILE M. CIORAN We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fabl...
PETER BENCHLEY Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance...
JANEANE GAROFALO Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
ELBERT HUBBARD Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance
ELBERT HUBBARD To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
MARK TWAIN We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we...
ELI ROTH The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When ...
ERIC HOFFER Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
CAT STEVENS Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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