“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
More from Bertrand Russell on Fear
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.”
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
“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.”
“Those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Others on Fear
Dale Carnegie
8 quotes“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer f...”
Veronica Roth
6 quotes“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it...”
Taylor Swift
6 quotes“I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.”
Kafka
5 quotes“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
George R.R. Martin
5 quotes“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
Michel de Montaigne
5 quotes“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
5 quotes“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
Jim Butcher
4 quotes“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerabl...”
Edmund Burke
4 quotes“No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Don DeLillo
4 quotes“Fear is intense self-awareness.”
Napoleon
4 quotes“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
Seneca
4 quotes“Where fear is happiness is not.”