"We dance round in a ring and..." - Quote by Robert Frost
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
More by Robert Frost
“Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.”
“The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
More on Knowledge
“Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.”
“... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.”
“If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.”
More on Truth
“Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.”
“Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.”
“Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”