Unfounded Fears Quotes

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

Mr. [Ross] Perot's paranoia knows no bounds.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.

I worry unnecessarily.

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Many things may become baggage, may become encumbrances if we cling to them blindly and uncritically

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.