Quotations About / On: FEAR

  • 41.
    Meanwhile, if the fear of falling into error sets up a mistrust of Science, which in the absence of such scruples gets on with the work itself, and actually cognizes something, it is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust.... What calls itself fear of error reveals itself rather as fear of the truth.
    (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher. Phenomenology of Spirit, introduction, par. 74, p. 47, Oxford University Press (1977).)
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  • 42.
    When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
    (José Bergamín (1895-1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 51, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).)
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  • 43.
    Caesar should be a beast without a heart
    If he should stay at home today for fear.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Caesar, in Julius Caesar, act 2, sc. 2, l. 42-3. In spite of bad omens, he is determined to go to the Capitol.)
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  • 44.
    It put an insidious fear in him
    like a tongue depressor held fast
    at the back of your throat.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Maiden Without Hands.")
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  • 45.
    Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
    (William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 77 (1823).)
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  • 46.
    I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 1, "The Burial of the Dead," (1922).)
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  • 47.
    For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.
    (Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. "I Whistle a Happy Tune," The King and I, Williamson Music Inc. (1951). Music composed by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979).)
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  • 48.
    We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
    (Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady, author, and speaker. As quoted in Eleanor and Franklin, ch. 48, by Joseph P. Lash (1971). In her September 26, 1938, "My Day" column. She was concerned about "the constant battle between those who would have us fear the communists and those who would have us fear the fascists.")
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  • 49.
    It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
    (Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Sergeant Clinton (Farley Granger), The Purple Heart, about to be tortured (1944).)
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  • 50.
    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
    (C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), British author. A Grief Observed (1961). Opening words of Lewis's book of mourning for his dead wife.)
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