Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

There is only one universal passion fear.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.

I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.