Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

The unknown is always frightening.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

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

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

People are scared of the unknown.

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

I don't know what frightens me more

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.