"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ― Robert Kennedy Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: tragedy More From Robert Kennedy "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." "One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time." "Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired." More In Wisdom "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."― Felix Frankfurter "I mean, the part you don’t like, I mean, that’s the only part. That’s the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that’s also just a fact of life in politics."― Laura Bush "Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."― Horace