Quotes About Wisdom

embrace ignorance

nonexperts or outsiders are often better at questioning than the experts. No one would argue that expert knowledge isn't valuable—but when it's time to question, it can get in the way.

What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don't know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another

You don't learn unless you question.

Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything." After

Picasso was onto this truth fifty years ago when he commented, "Computers are useless—they only give31 you answers.

most creative, successful business leaders have tended to be expert questioners. They're known to question the conventional wisdom of their industry, the fundamental practices of their company, even the validity of their own assumptions.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life–so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th 1987, you just didn't know it.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it."

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.