“Just when we think we have a system,… the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.”
Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
Source: Craine, Charlie Hip Online Article http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/s/system_of_a_down/interview/100298v.html September 2001
Speech to the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California (11 September 1952); Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 31
“When we sin, we think we are geniuses; when we confess, we know we are idiots.”
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 42
Standing by Words: Essays (2011), Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms (1982)
Context: It may be, then, that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Variant: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Source: The House of the Spirits
Waiting on the World to Change
Song lyrics, Continuum (2006)