Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Wisdom begins at the end.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

The wise man knows without traveling.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.