Knowledge leaves a well-worn trail, but the path to wisdom is unmarked.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Walked the mowed loop behind the school this morning, the one the groundskeeper cuts every Thursday whether it needs it or not. Switch came along as far as the oaks and then went up, which is his way of ending a conversation. For years I thought the two things were a staircase, that if I learned enough facts in enough order I would arrive somewhere quiet and know what to do with them. But knowledge leaves a well-worn trail, and the path to wisdom is unmarked; I have watched an old woman on the bench by the gate say one true sentence to her grandson and could not tell you where she got it. The mowed loop goes back to the parking lot. It always does.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- The only one-word lie I know is tomorrow.
- Most of the good roads are long roads.
- You can speed up to keep pace with the world or slow down and watch the world keep pace with you.
- Dream of the stars, but dream too of a road that takes you there.
- It’s not your path if your feet never touch it.
- The road will change you, if you’re on the right road.