A Quote by Andre Comte-Sponville

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

Andre Comte-Sponville

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Antidote Fear Imaginary Reality

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Andre Comte-Sponville
French - Philosopher
Born: March 12, 1952

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

Barbara Sher

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.

Jorge Luis Borges

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Jewel

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

Seth Godin

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Vernon Howard

We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality.