Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
