"What man does not understand, he fears;..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More by William Butler Yeats
“It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
“We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”
More on Fear
“Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.”
“The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”
“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”
More on Understanding
“Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.”
“Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.”
“Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”