Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - NISHIO Hirokazu's Scrapbox (Auto-translated from Japanese)

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,—

Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, Courage. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Knowledge

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., 1904

NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

Vol. VII. Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

X. Courage

Original: http://www.bartleby.com/90/0710.html

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