They also chose someone who is capable of change and admitting error, two qualities one associates with wisdom.
~ Jennifer Senior / NYT
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They also chose someone who is capable of change and admitting error, two qualities one associates with wisdom.
~ Jennifer Senior / NYT
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
~ Confucius
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
~ Confucius
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
~ As You Like It
“Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.”
~ Plato
“Wise people are in want of nothing and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything but are in want of everything.”
~ Chrysippus
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
~ Coco Chanel
Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial: one should recognize reality even when one doesn’t like it.
~ Charlie Munger
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you’re trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?
~ Charlie Munger
We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we’ll put it in the “too tough” basket.
~ Charlie Munger
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.
~ Charlie Munger
“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
~ William Butler Yeats
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
“Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.”
~ Hunter Thompson
“The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser.”
~ Buddha
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.”
~ William Shakespeare
“But I remember now
I am in this earthly world—where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.”
~ William Shakespeare
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
~ Richard Feynman
“I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.”
~ Richard Feynman
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”
~ Cato the Younger
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
~ Aristotle