Jim Butcher Quotes

Fear dims when you learn things.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

Nobody ever learns anything.

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you're at the end of the run you feel like you've figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that's not the case.

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.