Reid Hoffman

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.