Posted by on Sep 25, 2017 

By Jason Zweig  |  Sept. 25, 2017 9:37 p.m. ET

Image credit: Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx” (1863) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

 

 

I traveled around the world and realized how little I knew.

I traveled around the world and realized how little I knew about the places where I had never been.

I traveled around the world and realized how much better other places were than my own.

I traveled around the world and realized how much more people knew in other places than in my own.

I traveled around the world and realized how far every place is from paradise.

I came home and realized how little I knew about the place where I had lived my whole life.

I came home and realized how little people know anywhere.

I came home and realized how little I knew about myself.

I came home and realized how little I knew.

 

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