Related:

• Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed
  after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood....
• Maturity enters in slowly, sometime after the age in which you sincerely feel that you know everything.
• The more you know, the more confusing everything becomes.
• If there's ever anything I can do for you -- or, more to the point, to you, don't hesitate to ask.
  *What?* Which word didn't you understand?...
• Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand.
  He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well....
• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• Those cave paintings are wonderful, but like everything we know, they are not too wonderful to be true.
  It is their reality that gives them wonder, and while there will never come a time when some of us will not wish for more than we can have, the happiest of us will wait confidently for other tangible finds....
• English cuisine is generally so threadbare that for years there has been a gentlemen's agreement in the civilized world to allow the Brits preeminence in the matter of tea - which
  after all, comes down to little more than the ability to boil water....
• They do not understand how that which differs with itself is in agreeme
  harmony consists of opposing tension, like that of the lyre and the bow. -- Heraclitu...