Wise Confusing Sayings

#1. This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Vaclav Havel

#2. My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Tom Brokaw

#3. He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
--Overheard in a Real Estate Office

Bob Eckstein

#4. You are not your past.

Mitch Albom

#5. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality, which is nonsense.

Michael Albert

#7. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

#8. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

#9. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe