--- title: "1 Fear Understand Quotes By Jean Toomer" description: "1 Fear Understand quotes by Jean Toomer. Plus more from Jean Toomer and more Fear Understand sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg" --- > [Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-which-they-cannot-understand/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg) ## More by Jean Toomer > [“You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/you-are-the-most-sleepiest-man-i-ever-seed/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/happy-muriel-no-not-happy-your-aim-is-wrong-there-is-no-such-thing-as/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/we-never-know-we-are-beings-till-we-love-and-then-it-is-we-know-the/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/call-them-from-their-houses-and-teach-them-to-dream/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/dripping-rain-like-golden-honey-and-the-sweet-earth-flying-from-the/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/dusk-suggesting-the-almost-imperceptible-posession-of-giant-trees/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/whats-beauty-anyway-but-ugliness-if-it-hurts-you/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/fear-is-a-noose-that-binds-until-it-strangles/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/no-eyes-that-have-seen-beauty-ever-lose-their-sight/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Her Lips Are Copper Wire” whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/her-lips-are-copper-wire-whisper-of-yellow-globes-gleaming-on-lamp/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/it-takes-a-well-spent-lifetime-and-perhaps-more-to-crystalize-in-us/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/thunder-blossoms-gorgeously-above-our-heads-great-hollow-bell-like/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/night-winds-in-georgia-are-vagrant-poets-whispering/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [“Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/storm-ending-thunder-blossoms-gorgeously-above-our-heads-great-hollow/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) > [Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/most-novices-picture-themselves-as-masters-and-are-content-with-the/) [Jean Toomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-toomer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear-understand/jean-toomer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Fear Understand Quotes By Jean Toomer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jean Toomer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-toomer/men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-which-they-cannot-understand/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.” — Jean Toomer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear-understand/jean-toomer/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear-understand/jean-toomer/", "name": "Fear Understand Quotes by Jean Toomer", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear-understand/jean-toomer/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/jean-toomer-16142_fear_men-are-apt-to-idolize-or-fear-that-whic_3124984.jpg" }, "description": "1 Fear Understand quotes by Jean Toomer. 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