I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

We tend to believe that the more we know, the more clearly we can see the possibilities available. This is not the case. The impossible only becomes accessible when experience has not taught us limits. Did the computer win because it knew more than the grandmaster or because it knew less? There’s a great power in not knowing. When faced with a challenging task, we may tell ourselves it’s too difficult, it’s not worth the effort, it’s not the way things are done, it’s not likely to work, or it’s not likely to work for us.

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

غير أننا كنا نشعر بأننا أقوياء لا حد لقوتنا ،أما بعد الاعتقال فقد اضطرب شعورنا بالقوة و فقدنا الكثير من شجاعاتنا ، و ثقتنا فى انفسنا و فى الايام ،و اكتشفنا وجود قوة مخيفة تعمل فى استقلال كلي عن القانون و القيم الانسانية

Most of the time it’s not lack of experience that’s holding us back, but rather the lack of determination to do what we need to do to be successful.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

Because so often when we say we’re unqualified for something, what we’re really saying is that we’re too scared to try it, not that we can’t do it.

- ألا تخشى على الحضارة؟
- من حسن الحظ أننا لم ندخل الحضارة بعد، فما خوفنا من البلل؟

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.