“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”
Nobel Prize acceptance speech http://www.utoronto.ca/jpolanyi/nobel_prize/, Nobel Banquet in Stockholm (1986)
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“We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: Stay
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist
Attributed to Maslow by Toni Galardi in The LifeQuake Phenomenon: How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in Times of Personal and Global Upheaval (2009). Also to be found in other self-help books and on many quotes sites, but always without citation.
Quotes attributed to Abraham Maslow
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)
“we grow fearless when we do the things we fear”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, DNC Address (July 2016)
Context: America has changed over the years. But these values that my grandparents taught me — they haven’t gone anywhere. They’re as strong as ever, still cherished by people of every party, every race, every faith. They live on in each of us. What makes us American, what makes us patriots is what’s in here. That’s what matters. … And that’s why we can take the food and music and holidays and styles of other countries, and blend it into something uniquely our own. That’s why we can attract strivers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to build new factories and create new industries here. That’s why our military can look the way it does — every shade of humanity, forged into common service. That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
“Instead of fearing the unknown, we must conquer our fear.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016