Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

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

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.