Quotes About Wisdom

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

It's much better to work smarter, not harder.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Right now, get down on your hands and knees and pray to God or Allah or Buddha or whoever if you are an unsophisticated investor.

What advice would you give me in terms of how I value this?

Mastery begins when formal education ends.

The ability to ignore the instant chatter of the mind and to recognize there is something beyond it. There is wisdom beyond it, from the fountain of silence. This is the only way to choose yourself.

If anything, diversify not across stocks but across the smart people you follow. That is real diversification instead of "Yahoo Finance diversification.

The key: always assume you are the least intelligent person in the room. Always. Do this in every room, at every dinner, in every situation.

Everything is a game. Understanding the rules allows you to succeed.

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

people perceive you as stupid when you do this. Just keep quiet when someone is talking.

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

Every day I seek out mentors: people who have great experience to help me, particularly in areas I am new to, excited about, and know nothing about.

Believe it or not, sometimes it's just as good (often better) to read all of their materials rather than be directly mentored.

Your brain is a tool you use. It's not who you are.

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. When everyone spills their guts, they lose their sight. The one who holds on to this very precious resource becomes the one-eyed man, the king.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

One of the most terrible, most mysterious things about a life is that a warning can be heeded only in retrospect: too late.

People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

We don't know enough about ourselves. I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.

To accept one's past—one's history—is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.