Quotes About Knowledge

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Poor Charlie's Almanack, by Charles T. Munger.

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

Always be a student and always be a teacher.

Timothy Ferriss

I've always treated the world as my classroom, soaking up lessons and stories to fuel my path forward. I hope you do the same. The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Poor Charlie's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charles T. Munger),

Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.

Science isn't about being right preemptively or knowing the answer. Science is motivated by the human drive to struggle to discover.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)

I'm not sure how much the formal study of philosophy matters, but I think the fundamental philosophical question is one that's important for all of us, and it's always this question of 'What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

Cuando empiezas en algo podemos estar seguros de varias realidades fundamentales: 1) No eres ni de cerca tan bueno ni tan importante como crees; 2) Tienes una actitud que debes reajustar; 3) La mayoría de lo que crees que sabes o la mayoría de lo que aprendiste en los libros o en las aulas está obsoleto o equivocado.

I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." –Niels Bohr Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches.

Estresado es el término que usa el triunfador cuando quiere decir miedo.» «Los perdedores reaccionan, los líderes se anticipan.» «La maestría no sale de una infografía. Lo que sabes no vale una mierda. ¿Qué es lo que haces de forma sistemática?»