Ignorance breeds fear, knowledge fosters courage.

Meaning: This means that the more you know, the less you will be afraid.

Choice of Words: Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or education. Breeds means to produce or cause something to happen. Fear is a feeling of being afraid. Knowledge is information or understanding that you have learned. Fosters means to help something to grow or develop. Courage is the ability to do something even when you are afraid. When you put them together, the sentence means that lack of knowledge leads to fear, while knowledge gives you the courage to face your fears.

Alternative Expressions

Not knowing leads to fear, knowing brings bravery.

Meaning: This sentence means the same as the first sentence, but it uses different words to say it.

Choice of Words: Not knowing means the same as ignorance. Leads means to cause or result in something. Fear is the same as before. Knowing is the same as knowledge. Brings means to cause something to happen or exist. Bravery is the same as courage.

When you don't know, you're scared. When you know, you're brave.

Meaning: This sentence means the same as the first two sentences, but it uses even simpler words to say it.

Choice of Words: When you don't know means the same as ignorance and not knowing. You're is a contraction of the words you and are. Scared is the same as fear. When you know means the same as knowledge and knowing. You're is used again. Brave is the same as courage and bravery.

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