#insightful

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #people #nature

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~ variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer ↗

— Reinhold Neibuhr

#change

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #nature

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end... ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#inspirational #revenge #touching #death

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants. ↗

— Liz Phair

#amazing #blog #day #i #insightful

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#insightful #humor

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. ↗

— Melville

#love

Those who sees your mistake as a big thing, give thanks to them; cuz' they'll make you a better person. But for those who let you forget such mistakes, be thankful; cuz' they are your true friends. ↗

— Kent Ian N.Cny

#friends #frienship #insight #insightful #inspirational

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men. ↗

— Paul erik Van Schaick

#men