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.