Believe Quote by Christopher Paolini

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

Imagination makes cowards of us all.

— Ethel Mumford

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

— Lucan

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

— Rashida Jones

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

— Lucan

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not…

— Epicurus

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

— Marjane Satrapi

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

— Julius Caesar

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

— Babur

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without…

— Ayn Rand