“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

— Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623), Book II

About Francis Bacon

1561 – 1626

English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“Courage is of the heart by derivation, and great it is. But fear is of the soul.”