I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.