Quotes About Wisdom

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."—Oscar Wilde

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (5 mentions) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (4) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (4) The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (4) The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (4) Dune by Frank Herbert (3) Influence by Robert Cialdini (3)

7. «Si quieres mejorar, debe satisfacerte que te consideren necio y estúpido.» — Epicteto

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (3) Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (3) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman (3) The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (3) The Bible (3) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (3) The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (3) Watchmen by Alan Moore (3) Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (3)

Después pregúntate "¿Qué es lo que probablemente me diría a mí mismo si fuera una versión mayor de mí mismo?".

pero también es tener la sabiduría de dejar de explorar cuando encuentras algo en lo que vale la pena detenerse.

Everyone has their own journey. People who offer great advice understand that their goal is to help someone on their unique journey. People who offer bad advice are trying to relive their old glories.

Learn more, know less.

Failure will happen, and failure is an opportunity to build resilience, to practice forgiveness of self and of others, and to gain wisdom.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."—Omar N. Bradley

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash?

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest. Earn with your mind, not your time. 99% of all effort is wasted. Total honesty at all times. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett).

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.

Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.

The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner.

Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff,

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware