William Hazlitt Quotes

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel without fear.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Only a fool is not afraid.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

The more wit the less courage.

You can't test courage cautiously.