Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Knowledge is power.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

Experience is a great teacher.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

To know is to control.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Power is the by-product of understanding.