Tina Brown Quotes

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.