Quotes About Wisdom

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

Our basic principle is that if you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. p217

The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.

When "dumb" money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

Go to bed a little smarter each day.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.

Some Thoughts About Investing

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

The key is having more information than the other guy – then analysing it right and using it rationally.

My partner, Charlie, says that there's only three ways that a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.

A cumulation of small managerial stupidities will produce a major stupidity—not a major triumph.

The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.

If Albert Einstein, the last century's very poster boy for the cunning man and the wild-haired magician of science, knew one thing, then it was simply that there was always more to be known. He didn't pridefully condemn dreams of physics and incomplete theories. He pointed off into the future and named the unknown things as, in fact, spooky action at a distance.

He could be a wise man of the woods, spoken of in whispers, his words and thoughts becoming spooky action at a distance in the world beyond. A secret wizard of the future.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Es absolutamente imprescindible que tengamos un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios y que poseamos un conocimiento básico de lo que ella es.

There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.

no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.