Home » Quote » John Cage » „I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.“ „I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.“ — John Cage Tags:IdeaPeopleUnderstanding Related quotes „One feels of him that there was much he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was frightened of saying or thinking.“ — George Orwell „I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea….“ — Agatha Christie „Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.“ — Stephen King „In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.“ — Carl Sagan „I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.“ — Paulo Coelho „And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.“ — Mary Oliver „Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.“ — Sigmund Freud
„I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.“ — John Cage Tags:IdeaPeopleUnderstanding