Apollonius of Tyana Quotes

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Cowardice is no virtue.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.