“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
— John F. Kennedy Primary source“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy’s devices.”
— Thucydides Primary source“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie DisputedIgnorance Courage Threats Minimalism Lose