It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides,

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

She had never driven far alone before. The notion of dividing her lovely journey into miles and hours was silly; she saw it [...] as a passage of moments, each one new, carrying her along with them, taking her down a path of incredible novelty to a new place. The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, perhaps nonexistent. [...] Or she might never leave the road at all, but just hurry on and on until the wheels of the car were worn to nothing and she had come to the end of the world.

So each moment we can see only part of the world, not the whole world. That is the source of delusion.

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to conclusions.

But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

….it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.