A Quote by Eugenie de Guerin

Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Eugenie de Guerin

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Eugenie de Guerin
French - Poet
1805 - May 31, 1848

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Clarence Darrow

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

John Bunyan

Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

C. J. Anderson

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Zora Neale Hurston

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

T. S. Eliot

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Solomon

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The Bible itself claims that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".

Craig Blomberg

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.