Feared Quotes

440 quotes by 368 authors

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. — Seneca the Younger
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — Bill Gates
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying… — Seneca the Younger
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing. — Bill Gates
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would… — Alexander Hamilton
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing. — Henrik Ibsen
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. — John Knox
As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear. — Rabbi Ishmael
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation… — Ralph Lapp
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. — Harold S. Kushner
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and… — Lucretius
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers,… — James Madison
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them,… — Saint Francis de Sales
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. — Henry David Thoreau

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