From the song 'Fear' by Siouxsie And The Banshees:

Fear, fear, fear takes control,
Fear, fear, fear of the unknown.

Aware of what will hurt you,
You're prepared to remain this way,
So sad yet safe with your afflictions,
Afraid to start a brand new day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUcjt10NGg

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
- George S. Patton

"Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure.
For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, 'Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.' His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential."
- David W. Jones, Moses and Mickey Mouse: How to Find Holy Ground in the Magic Kingdom and Other Unusual Places

"The unknown is not what to be afraid of, it’s only when the unknown becomes known that one can decide whether to be afraid or not."
- Markus Peterson

"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
- Elias Canetti

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

"A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad siuations."
- Kathie Lee Gifford

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
- Pope John Paul II

Song #lesson: You may not be as smart as you think....

"But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
- From the song 'Colors of the Wind'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuzskVs6rc