“Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.” KnowsWorldDreamNightSleepWhiteCitiesCompanyWonderSunWiseSeaStrangeGeniusHeroGardenEdgesUnhappyForestsGoldenHillsAwakeGatesThickFountainCliffsEnchantedIvoryBronzeMurmuringWhite Horse Book:The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales Source: The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.” MenSoundWonderTeachWiseJourneyCommunicateSparesFoolishnessImpartSiddhartha Author:Marcel Proust
“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.” MenNatureCommonWonderWiseIgnoranceIgnorantExceptionalRegularity Author:George Dana Boardman Pepper
“It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.” MenShouldDoeWisdomEyeDifferencesWonderWiseWonderfulSightHis EyesLatterUnusualUsualUnwiseNeurologists Book:A Year with Emerson: A Daybook Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.” KnowsPastInterestWonderWorryWiseStyleCreaturesSpeciesAbidingHomo Sapiens Author:John Noble Wilford
“Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'” WantNeedsHardReasonWonderAudienceWiseHard WorkPerformancesPerformersTrenches Author:Joan Jett