Tom Brokaw Quotes

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.