“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The processes of power are pervasive, complex, and often disguised in our society.”

John R. P. French (1913–1995) American psychologist

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its “fear of the Lord” and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

Boris Sidis (1867–1923) American psychiatrist

“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”

June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist