F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts