"People tend to fear what they do..." - Quote by Dolly Parton
People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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“I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.”
“My husband says I look like a Q-tip.”
“I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.”
More on Fear
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.”
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
More on Ignorance
“The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”
“It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”