Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

I am never afraid of what I know.

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

If I knew the answer to that question, I would disclose it.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.