Fear always springs from ignorance.
Interpretation
Ignorance breeds fear; understanding can dispel it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that fear often originates from a lack of knowledge or understanding. When we are ignorant about something, it can lead to anxiety and fear, but gaining knowledge can help alleviate those feelings and empower us to confront our fears with confidence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
What one does easily, one does well.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
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