wisdom Quotes

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.