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?
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
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