"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 "Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies." "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on." "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." More In Wisdom "Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."― Steve Albini "Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes."― Christopher Reeve "He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."― Edgar R. Fiedler