Believe Quote by Epicurus

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

Fear makes men believe the worst.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is…

— Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is…

— Anonymous

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive…

— Bertrand Russell

If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by…

— Thomas Hobbes

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

— Anonymous

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

— Bertrand Russell

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to…

— Anonymous

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural…

— Arthur Schopenhauer