Quotes About Discernment

If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

science is about how not to be a sucker.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," he said.

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin. People

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise.

Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo 'AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« T?lib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.

Steve Jobs: «La gente pensa che essere concentrati significhi dire sì alla cosa sulla quale ci si deve focalizzare. Ma non è affatto così. Significa dire no ad altre cento buone idee. Dovete scegliere con cura. Di fatto io sono orgoglioso delle cose che non abbiamo fatto tanto quanto lo sono di quelle che ho fatto. Innovazione significa dire no a mille cose».

not to be swayed by well-sounding remarks. I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

that really successful people say no to almost everything

All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur.

Getting rich results in his seeing flaws in the goods and services he buys.

Borrowed wisdom can be vicious. I need to make a huge effort not to be swayed by well-sounding remarks. I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen.

All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

one is more likely to be drinking poison in a golden cup than an ordinary one.

best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.

the only effective judge of things is time

they have what is lacking in the young:

If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind:

the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin.