Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. ”

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed. ”

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop. ”

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published. ”

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. ”

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful. ”

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ”

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience. ”

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity. ”

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that. ”