“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
Variant: Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
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Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(1830–1916) Austrian writer
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 82.
Sheri S. Tepper
(1929–2016) American fiction writer
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Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Thomas Paine
(1737–1809) English and American political activist
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
Thomas Traherne
(1636–1674) English poet
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations
“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
