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?
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and thatβs where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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