Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
Willie Aames

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy