“What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)”
“Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?”
“It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not”
“It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ”
“What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it.”
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”