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To be we know not what, we know not where. To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Fostered alike by beauty and by fear. For the fallen and the weak. Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. The soul that knows it not, know no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. His look drained the stones. The bigger the weapon, the greater the fear. Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you
 * Oderint dum metua
 * Let them hate, so long as they fear.
 * Lucius Accius, fragment
 * Fear is the foundation of most governments.
 * John Adams, Thoughts on Government (1776).
 * He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
 * Variant: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
 * Aristotle, Quoted in Florilegium by Joannes Stobaeus
 * Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
 * Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Fortitudo (1623).
 * Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
 * Francis Bacon, Apothegms, Of Death (1624).
 * No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
 * Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756).
 * The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
 * Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions (March 22, 1775).
 * Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
 * Edmund Burke, speech on the petition of the Unitarians, House of Commons (May 11, 1792); in The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 7, p. 50.
 * There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
 * Attributed to Edmund Burke; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
 * The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
 * Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section 4, member 1, subsec. 2 (1621-1651).
 * Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
 * Ben Carson, Take The Risk (p. 63).
 * The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
 * Ben Carson, Take The Risk (p. 236).
 * Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615), Part III, Book 6.
 * So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine. ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
 * James Clavell, in Noble House (1981).
 * Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
 * Pierre Cornielle, Cinna, Act IV, scene ii (1640).
 * 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, As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v.
 * Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
 * John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe, Act IV, scene i (1676)
 * Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Part I, Ch. 1 (1866)
 * It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — always do what you are afraid to do.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series (1841).
 * O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Heroism", Essays: First Series (1903; vol. 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 259–60.
 * Depend on me; never fear your enemies. Ill warrant We make more noise than they.
 * Henry Fielding, in The Universal Gallant : Or, the Different Husbands, A Comedy (1735)
 * None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
 * Ferdinand Foch, As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) by Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov, p. 338
 * You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
 * Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms Section 222 (1955)
 * Never fear your, enemies. A bold fight is the best: we should advance, and not retrograde.
 * William Alanson Howard, in Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880 (1903), p. 250
 * Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?... Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of peace.
 * Dag Hammarskjöld, in UN Press Release SG/360 (22 December 1953).
 * Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
 * William James, in "Is Life Worth Living?" The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
 * "Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
 * Dag Hammarskjöld, in a statement on the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in Quote (20 May 1956).
 * Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
 * John F. Kennedy, inaugural address (January 20, 1961); in The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 2.
 * For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
 * Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Book II, l. 87.
 * From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
 * Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 8 (1513).
 * I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
 * Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Chapter 56, p. 178 (2001)
 * I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
 * Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
 * C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
 * The thing I fear most is fear.
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Book I, Chapter 18 (1580).
 * Hatred does not exist as a basic psychological structure. It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure.
 * Jane Roberts, in The Early Sessions: Book 2, Session 75, Page 271
 * L'amour de la justice n'est en la plupart des hommes que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice.
 * The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 78 (1665–1678).
 * Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.
 * Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 180 (1665–1678).
 * Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, inaugural address (March 4, 1933); in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 (1938), p. 11.
 * We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear...anywhere in the world.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress (January 6, 1941).
 * No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
 * Bertrand Russell, Dreams and Facts (1919).
 * Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
 * Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), "Fear, the Foundation of Religion"
 * To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
 * Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals Ch. 16 (1929).
 * Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. The craving for religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in the best way. In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity.
 * Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 112
 * There are two ways of coping with fear: one is to diminish the external danger, and the other is to cultivate Stoic endurance. The latter can be reinforced, except where immediate action is necessary, by turning our thoughts away from the cause of fear. The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. Nothing has so beneficent an effect on human beings as security. ...Fear, at present, overshadows the world. ...If matters are to improve, the first and essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear.
 * Bertrand Russell, Nobel Lecture: What Desires Are Politically Important? (11 December, 1950).
 * Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
 * Bertrand Russell, "A Liberal Decalogue", New York Times Magazine (16 December, 1951).
 * The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
 * Publilius Syrus, Maxims, No. 511 (100 BC).
 * Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
 * Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part III, definition 13: explanation (1677).
 * The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
 * Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture) (1679 - published 1709).
 * For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part III, l. 66 (1711).
 * Man’s basic anxiety … drives the anxious subject to establish objects of fear. Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage. … Horror is ordinarily avoided by the transformation of anxiety into fear of something, no matter what. The human mind is not only, as Calvin has said, a permanent factory of idols, it is also a permanent factory of fears—the first in order to escape God, the second in order to escape anxiety. … But ultimately the attempts to transform anxiety into fear are vain. The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of nonbeing, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
 * Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p.39
 * When I can read my title clear
 * Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, hymn 65.
 * Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
 * Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Ch. 7, Section 3 (1992) P. 190.
 * Like one that on a lonesome road
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part VI, st. 10 (1798).
 * Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
 * William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book I, l. 301 (written 1799-1805).
 * The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
 * John Randolph, speech in the House of Representatives (March 5, 1806).
 * The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, published 1888 (November 3, 1831).
 * They are slaves who fear to speak
 * James Russell Lowell, Stanzas on Freedom, st. 4 (1843).
 * Alike were they free from
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, Section 1 (1847).
 * Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
 * Henry David Thoreau, Journal (September 7, 1851).
 * One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 74 (1878).
 * The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Geneology of Morals, Second Essay, Section 15 (1887).
 * Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
 * Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapter 12 (1894).
 * Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.
 * Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
 * Virgil, The Aeneid, Book II, l. 49.
 * Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
 * Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms (1905).
 * The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
 * H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural horror in Literature (1927).
 * Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
 * Amelia Earhart, Courage (1927).
 * I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.
 * E. B. White, letter to the New York Herald Tribune (November 29, 1947).
 * Fear was my father, Father Fear.
 * Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son, I (1948).
 * 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, Unpopular Essays, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1950).
 * There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.
 * Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe (1951).
 * It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
 * Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1954).
 * We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we...remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment unpopular.
 * Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (March 7, 1954).
 * You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."...You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
 * Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960).
 * I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
 * Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear (1965), pg. 8.
 * Fear is an emotion that makes us blind. How many things are we afraid of? We're afraid to turn off the lights when our hands are wet. We're afraid to stick a knife into the toaster to get the stuck English muffin without unpluggin it first. We're afraid of what the doctor may tell us when the physical exam is over; when the airplane suddenly takes a great unearthly lurch in midair. We're afraid that the oil may run out, that the good air will run out, the good water, the good life. When the daughter promised to be in by eleven and it's now quarter past twelve and sleet is spatting against the window like dry sand, we sit and pretend to watch Johnny Carson and look occasionally at the mute telephone and we feel the emotion that makes us blind, the emotion that makes a stealthy ruin of the thinking process.
 * Stephen King, Night Shift, foreward (1978).
 * Fear makes us blind, and we touch each fear with all the avid curiousity of self-interest, trying to make a whole out of a hundred parts, like the blind men with their elephant. We sense the shape. Children grasp it easily, forget it, and relearn it as adults. The shape is there, and most of us come to realize what it is sooner or later: it is the shape of a body under a sheet. All our fears add up to one great fear, all our fears are part of that great fear - an arm, a leg, a finger, an ear. We're afraid of the body under the sheet. It's our body. And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths.
 * Stephen King, Night Shift, foreward
 * Quite an experience, to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
 * replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982).
 * The only thing you fear is fearlessness.
 * R.E.M., Hyena (1986).
 * Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life?
 * Toad The Wet Sprocket, Pray Your Gods (1991).
 * To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
 * Peter McWilliams, Life 101 (1995).
 * Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally.
 * Darth Maul, promotional clip for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999).
 * Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
 * Yoda in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999).
 * The road remains wide open while your dreams are alive. Only fear can block the way. Let fear propel you forward. Do not look back. Do not let failure stifle you.
 * Iron-Tail Fratley (World Map Key Item), from Final Fantasy IX (2000).
 * I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings.
 * Max Payne, from Max Payne PC game (2001).
 * Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
 * Francis Quarles, Enchiridion (1640).
 * I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild- mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread. Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dead like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.
 * Yann Martel, "Life of Pi", (178-9).
 * Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
 * Frances Moore Lappé, O Magazine, (May 2004).
 * I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
 * Frances Moore Lappé, O Magazine, (May 2004).
 * Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.
 * Bob Barr, ACLU boardmember and former Congressman from Georgia; quoted in "Feds may soon check all workers' IDs", USA Today, 2 March 2006.
 * Take the so-called politics of fear — the constant reference to risks, from hoodies on the street corner to international terrorism. Whatever the truth of these risks and the best ways of dealing with them, the politics of fear plays on an assumption that people cannot bear the uncertainties associated with them. Politics then becomes a question of who can better deliver an illusion of control.
 * Ex-vicar Mark Vernon; quoted in "God. Who knows?". BBC News. 4 December 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
 * Où serait le mérite, si les héros n'avaient jamais peur?
 * Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?
 * Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon (1872); French cited from Tartarin de Tarascon (Paris: E. Flammarion, 1887), p. 204; translation from the Webster's French Thesaurus edition (San Diego: Icon, 2008), p. 80.
 * Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.
 * Veronica Roth, (Divergent)
 * Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
 * Swami Vivekananda, Pearls of Wisdom

The Bible
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
 * Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
 * Book of Job, 41:33.
 * When the attendant of the man of the true God rose early and went outside, he saw that an army with horses and war chariots was surrounding the city. At once the attendant said to him: “Alas, my master! What are we to do?” But he said: “Do not be afraid! For there are more who are with us than those who are with them.”
 * 2 Kings 6ː15-16, New World Translation
 * Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
 * Psalms, 23:4.
 * The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
 * Psalms, 27:1.
 * God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.
 * Psalms, 46:1-2.
 * As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
 * Psalms, 103:11.
 * The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
 * Psalms, 111:10.
 * Be not afraid of sudden fear.
 * Book of Proverbs, 3:25.
 * Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
 * Ecclesiastes, 12:13.
 * There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
 * First Epistle of John, 4:18.

Shakespeare
Is to be frightened out of fear. Kills me to look on't. When little fears grow great, great love grows there. Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear. Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. The thief doth fear each bush an officer. Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposèd numbers Pluck their hearts from them. And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be feared. When the most mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, A widow, husbandless, subject to fears, A woman, naturally born to fears. Are less than horrible imaginings. In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Thy gory locks at me. And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear. Our fears do make us traitors. That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear! Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe. Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear. But, like dumb statues or breathing stones, Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale. That almost freezes up the heat of life.
 * Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1606-1607), Act III, scene xi.
 * To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
 * William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (1609), Act III, scene ii.
 * It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 4, line 107.
 * Best safety lies in fear.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 43.
 * Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-1601), Act III, scene 2.
 * There is not such a word
 * William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act IV, scene 1, line 84.
 * Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
 * William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act 1, scene 1, line 68.
 * True nobility is exempt from fear.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VI (1594), Act IV, scene i.
 * Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VI (1595), Act V, scene vi.
 * O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;
 * William Shakespeare, Henry V (1600), Act IV, scene i.
 * Things done well,
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act I, scene 2, line 88.
 * It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
 * William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 54.
 * For I am sick and capable of fears,
 * William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act III, scene 1, line 12.
 * And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 136.
 * Present fears
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 137.
 * Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 17.
 * Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 49.
 * You can behold such sights,
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 114.
 * His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 2, line 3.
 * The weariest and most loathed worldly life
 * William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, scene i.
 * Or in the night, imagining some fear,
 * William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act V, scene 1, line 21.
 * Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
 * William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594), line 230.
 * To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
 * William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, scene 2, line 180.
 * Truly the souls of men are full of dread:
 * William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 3, line 39.
 * They spake not a word;
 * William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 7, line 24.
 * I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
 * William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act IV, scene 3, line 15.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.

For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. To lose a rotten member is a gain. To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border. And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine they feel the pain And blows they felt, to-day, again. For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind. Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe As left him not, till penitence had won Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach. And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horror heavy sat on every mind. Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.'' And thou shalt know ere long,— Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. For the fallen and the weak. In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.'' Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.'' And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies, Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap dogs, breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels fallen, from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie. Each bush we see's a bear. Hab' ich zu fürchten aufgehört.'' Doch wahres Unglück bringt der falsche Wahn.'' Pessimus in dubiis augur timor.'' E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.'' And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. Stared in her eyes, and chalk'd her face. Weak and unmanly, loosens every power. For once that Peter was respected.
 * No one loves the man whom he fears.
 * Aristotle.
 * Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.
 * It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
 * Ausonius, Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Versibus Explicatæ, VII. 4.
 * The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
 * Joanna Baillie, Count Basil (1798), Act III, scene 1, line 151.
 * An aching tooth is better out than in,
 * Richard Baxter, Hypocrisy.
 * Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
 * Richard Baxter, Love Breathing Thanks and Praise.
 * The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip
 * Robert Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend.
 * Fear is an ague, that forsakes
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III.
 * His fear was greater than his haste:
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto III, line 64.
 * In summo periculo timor misericordiam non recipit.
 * In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
 * Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, VII. 26.
 * El miedo tiene muchos ojos.
 * Fear has many eyes.
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, III. 6.
 * Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.
 * Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
 * Cicero, Philippicæ, II. 36.
 * Like one, that on a lonesome road
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798; 1817), Part VI.
 * His frown was full of terror, and his voice
 * William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II, line 659.
 * The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
 * John Dryden, Theodore and Honorio, line 336.
 * We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
 * George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book VII, Chapter V.
 * Fear always springs from ignorance.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar.
 * Fear is the parent of cruelty.
 * James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Party Politics.
 * ''Quia me vestigia terrent
 * I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
 * Horace, Epistles, I. 1. 74.
 * You are uneasy, * * * you never sailed with me before, I see.
 * Andrew Jackson, Parton's Life of Jackson, Volume III, p. 493.
 * Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
 * Samuel Johnson, from Miss Reynolds, Recollections of Johnson.
 * De loin, c'est quelque chose; et de prés, ce n'est rien.
 * From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
 * Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, IV. 10.
 * Major ignotarum rerum est terror.
 * Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
 * Livy, Annales, XXVIII. 44.
 * Oh, fear not in a world like this,
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light of Stars, Stanza 9.
 * They are slaves who fear to speak
 * James Russell Lowell, Stanzas on Freedom, last stanza.
 * The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
 * George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Chapter XX.
 * Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
 * John Marston, Antonio's Revenge, Prolog.
 * The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Fear.
 * Imagination frames events unknown,
 * Hannah More, Belshazzar, Part II.
 * Quem metuit quisque, perisse cupit.
 * Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
 * Ovid, Amorum (16 BC), II. 2. 10.
 * ''Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
 * The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
 * Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, II. 7. 13.
 * ''Terretur minimo pennæ stridore columba
 * The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
 * Ovid, Tristium, I. 1. 75.
 * Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes,
 * Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto III, line 155.
 * A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
 * Francis Quarles, Emblems, Book I, Emblem XIII, line 19.
 * Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
 * Sir Walter Raleigh, written on a window pane for Queen Elizabeth to see. She wrote under it "If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all." Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, Volume I, p. 419.
 * Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.
 * Fear makes men believe the worst.
 * Quintus Curtius Rufus, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, IV, 3, 22.
 * Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.
 * When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
 * Quintus Curtius Rufus, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, IV, 10, 10.
 * Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.
 * When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
 * Quintus Curtius Rufus, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, IV, 16, 17.
 * Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.
 * The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
 * Sallust, Catilina, LVIII.
 * Wer nichts fürchtet ist nicht weniger mächtig, als der, den Alles fürchtet.
 * The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.
 * Friedrich Schiller, Die Räuber, I. 1.
 * ''Wenn ich einmal zu fürchten angefangen
 * As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.
 * Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos, I. 6. 68.
 * ''Ich weiss, dass man vor leeren Schrecken zittert;
 * I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.
 * Friedrich Schiller, Piccolomini, V. 1. 105.
 * Scared out of his seven senses.
 * Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter XXIV.
 * Necesse est multos timeat, quem multi timent.
 * He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear.
 * Seneca, De Ira, II. 11.
 * Si vultis nihil timere, cogitate omnia esse timenda.
 * If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
 * Seneca, Quæstionum Naturalium, VI. 2.
 * ''Tunc plurima versat
 * Then fear, the very worst prophet in misfortunes, anticipates many evils.
 * Statius, Thebais, III. 5.
 * Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
 * Fear in the world first created the gods.
 * Statius, Thebais, III. 661.
 * Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
 * Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I.
 * Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri.
 * Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
 * Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), XV. 59.
 * ''Bello in si bella vistà anco è l'orrore,
 * Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,
 * Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme, XX. 30.
 * Fear
 * Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), IV, line 357.
 * Desponding Fear, of feeble fancies full,
 * James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 286.
 * Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes.
 * We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
 * Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, CII.
 * Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit.
 * I was astounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 774, and III. 48.
 * Degeneres animos timor arguit.
 * Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), IV. 13.
 * Pedibus timor addidit alas.
 * Fear gave wings to his feet.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), VIII. 224.
 * Full twenty times was Peter feared,
 * William Wordsworth, Peter Bell, Part I, Stanza 3.
 * Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
 * Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 441.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
 * He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
 * Christian Nestell Bovee, p. 244.
 * When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
 * Thomas Brooks, p. 532.
 * There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.
 * Blaise Pascal, p. 244.
 * Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
 * Sarah Smiley, p. 243.
 * It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.
 * John Witherspoon, p. 243.

Ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. Condemn’d alike to groan, - The tender for another’s pain, Th’ unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; '''where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise'''. The lowest of your throng. The only wretched are the wise. The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen! Don't know what good they hold in their hands until They've flung it away. Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, On all things all day long. But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.'' Ne videris quod videris.'' Qui nisi quod ipse facit nihil rectum putat.'' Adversum stimulum calces.''
 * Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
 * Traditional Arabic proverb.
 * Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
 * James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Book II, Stanza 30.
 * A large segment of the American public is sadly deficient in its knowledge of basic business and economic facts of life. The media, which many people say are their primary sources of their business and economic info, do not appear to be making any significant impact on this ignorance.
 * Frank Bennack, Jr., CEO of Hearst Corporation in 1984 (source: No Comment!. p. 59. ISBN 0275928209.).
 * For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
 * Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section IV. Memb. 1. Subsect. 2. Phrase used by Dr. Cole, Disputation with the Papists at Westminster, March 31, 1559. Quoted from Cole by Bishop Jewel, Works, Volume III, Part II, p. 1202. Quoted as a "Popish maxim" by Thomas Vincent, Explicatory Catechism, Epistle to the Reader (c. 1622). Said by Jeremy Taylor, To a person newly converted to the Church of England (1657). Same found in New Custome. I. I. A Morality printed 1573. (True devotion).
 * The truest characters of ignorance
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663-1664).
 * A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant.
 * Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Ch. 5 - Something Wrong Somewhere (1855-1857).
 * To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil: Or, The Two Nations (1845), p. 36.
 * Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil: Or, The Two Nations (1845), Book IV, Chapter V.
 * Ignorance never settles a question.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, speech, House of Commons (May 14, 1866).
 * For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
 * John Dryden, The Maiden Queen (1667), Act I, scene 2.
 * Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
 * George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Ch. XIII (1876).
 * Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.
 * Euripides, Antiope, Frag. 204.
 * Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
 * James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects (1867–82), Party Politics.
 * Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
 * Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frederick Ungar, ed., Goethe's World View Presented in His Reflections and Maxims (1963), p. 58–59.
 * There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
 * Emma Goldman, responding to audience questions during a speech in Detroit (1898); as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207; quoted by Annie Laurie Gaylor in Women Without Superstition, p. 382.
 * And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 61.
 * To each his suff’rings; all are men,
 * Thomas Gray, repr. In Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, stanza 10 (written 1742, published 1747). [[1]]
 * Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785), Query 6.
 * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (January 6, 1816).
 * Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams (August 1, 1816).
 * Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
 * Samuel Johnson, in reply to the lady who asked why "pastern" was defined in the dictionary as "the knee of the horse". Boswell's Life of Johnson, (1755).
 * He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
 * Samuel Johnson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 336.
 * So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
 * Johannes Kepler, Somnium (The Dream) (1620-1630).
 * Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words; but opportunity will prevail.
 * Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, "Cleobulus", iv.
 * He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
 * Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, "Socrates", xiv
 * Variant: The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
 * He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
 * Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, "Socrates", xvi.
 * Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth.
 * William Paton Mackay, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 337.
 * To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
 * David O. McKay, Pathways To Happiness, (1957), pp. 351-352.
 * It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
 * Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
 * There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
 * Pietro Mascagni, in Scott Beach, Musicdotes, (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1977), p. 94.
 * Ignorance is the parent of fear.
 * Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Ch. 3 (1851).
 * Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 830.
 * The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
 * Ming-hsin pao-chien ("Precious Mirror for Enlightening the Heart") (compiled c. 1393 by Fan Li-pen). Translation for Chinese Repository by Dr. William Milne.
 * All wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common ignorance.
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Ch. III (1571-1592).
 * Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment, and judgment also without them; but the confession of ignorance is one of the finest and surest testimonies of judgment that I know.
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Ch. X (1571-1592).
 * IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
 * George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ch. 1, slogan of the Party (1949).
 * People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
 * Cesare Pavese, The moon and the bonfire, chapter XXVI, p. 149.
 * From ignorance our comfort flows.
 * Matthew Prior, To the Hon. Charles Montague (1692).
 * Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem
 * Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man
 * George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589), excerpted and translated in Wayne A. Rebhorn, ed., Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric.
 * Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
 * Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life, (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998), p. 69.
 * If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
 * Zack de la Rocha, "Settle for Nothing", Rage Against the Machine (album), 1992.
 * Everybody is ignorant; only on different subjects.
 * Will Rogers. Paula McSpadden Love, The Will Rogers Book (1972), p. 119. The author was a niece of Will Rogers, and curator of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma.
 * Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, Part II, Chapter XXI: Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, p. 722.
 * So oft in theologic wars,
 * John Godfrey Saxe, "The Blind Men and the Elephant," moral, The Poetical Works of John Godfrey Saxe (1887), p. 112. While Saxe said this was a Hindu fable, the story may be found in The Udna, or The Solemn Utterances of the Buddha, chapter 6, section 4, trans. Dawsonne M. Strong, p. 93–96 (1902).
 * Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. The poor man is restrained by poverty and need: labour occupies his thoughts, and takes the place of knowledge. But rich men who are ignorant live for their lusts only, and are like the beasts of the field, as may be seen every day; and they can also be reproached for not having used wealth and leisure for that which gives them their greatest value.
 * Schopenhauer, “On books and reading,” Religion: a dialogue, and other essays, T.B. Saunders, trans. (1910)
 * O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
 * William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 2, line 21.
 * The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance.
 * William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Sc. 3. (1602).
 * "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
 * Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Ch. 23 (1818).
 * Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog.
 * William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act IV, scene 2, line 44.
 * If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
 * Sterling W. Sill, The Power of Believing, (1968), p. 29.
 * Ignorant men
 * Sophocles, "Ajax", trans. John Moore, in David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, eds., The Complete Greek Tragedies (1959), vol. 2, p. 250. There have been numerous translations of this play by Sophocles, with varying translations of these words, spoken by the character Tecmessa. The translation by George Young, The Dramas of Sophocles, p. 102 (1888) reads, "Men of perverse opinion do not know / The excellence of what is in their hands,/ Till some one dash it from them".
 * There's nothing as safe as ignorance - or as dangerous.
 * Rex Stout, "The Squirt and the Monkey" (1951), character of Nero Wolfe.
 * Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
 * Jeremy Taylor, To a Person Newly Converted (1657).
 * Blind and naked Ignorance
 * Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Merlin and Vivien. Line 662. (1859-1885).
 * I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I, spoken by Lady Bracknell (1895).
 * Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.
 * In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
 * Cicero, De Divinatione, II. 22.
 * Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.
 * Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
 * Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, I. 13.
 * Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.
 * I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
 * Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. I. 25. 60.
 * Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay XVI.
 * Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
 * George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book II, Chapter XIII.
 * Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thätige Unwissenheit.
 * There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
 * It was a childish ignorance,
 * Thomas Hood, I Remember, I Remember.
 * ''Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami:
 * Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
 * Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, VIII. 10.
 * A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
 * John Locke, Human Understanding, Book I, Chapter II.
 * But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
 * Horace Mann, Lectures on Education, Lecture VI.
 * Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.
 * What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
 * Ovid, Ars Amatoria, III. 397.
 * It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
 * Plato.
 * ''Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
 * Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
 * Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, II. 6. 89.
 * Illi mors gravis incubat qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi.
 * Death presses heavily on that man, who, being but too well known to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
 * Seneca, Thyestes, CCCCI.
 * The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso of Calderon, scene 1.
 * Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.
 * Everything unknown is magnified.
 * Tacitus, Agricola, XXX. Quoting Galgacus, the British leader, to his subjects before the battle of the Grampian Hills. Ritter says the sentence may be a "marginal gloss" and brackets it. Anticipated by Thucydides, Speech of Nicias, VI. 11. 4.
 * ''Homine imperito nunquam quidquid injustius,
 * Nothing can be more unjust than the ignorant man, who thinks that nothing is well done by himself.
 * Terence, Adelphi, I. 2. 18.
 * ''Namque inscitia est,
 * It is consummate ignorance to kick against the pricks.
 * Terence, Phormio, I. 2. 27.