To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Topic: Fear, Wisdom
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
