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Quotes About Wisdom

Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant, and River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins.
~ Timothy Ferriss
One of the books he recommends for cultivating dealmaking ability is actually a children's book and a 10-minute read: Stone Soup. "It's a children's story that is the best MBA degree you can read.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Buffett le dijo: «Invertir en ti es la inversión más importante que puedes hacer en la vida… Nunca habrá una inversión financiera comparable, porque si desarrollas más destreza, más capacidad, eso será lo que realmente te dará la libertad económica…
~ Timothy Ferriss
Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."—Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
~ Timothy Ferriss
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes." —MARCEL PROUST
~ Timothy Ferriss
Poor Charlie's Almanack, by Charles T. Munger.
~ Timothy Ferriss
That cliché you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains. Conversely, things you initially found enlightening might run their course, like a wonderful high school coach who needs to hand you off to a college coach for you to reach the next level.
~ Timothy Ferriss
John Dewey's dictum that "a problem well put is half-solved
~ Timothy Ferriss
Regret is past-tense decision making.
~ Timothy Ferriss
If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will appear.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Always be a student and always be a teacher.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Timothy Ferriss
~ Maria Popova
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.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Life's Little Instruction Book
~ Timothy Ferriss
Poor Charlie's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charles T. Munger),
~ Timothy Ferriss
La vida es demasiado corta para tenerla ocupada.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. —INGVAR KAMPRAD, founder of IKEA,
~ Timothy Ferriss
I also keep a handful of blank pages in my morning journal to build a quote section over the course of the journal (pulling quotes from reading, podcasts, etc.). That way, I can easily refer back to it and flip through when looking for some insight.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.
~ Timothy Ferriss
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)
~ Timothy Ferriss
How to Say "No" When It Matters Most "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." —Lin Yutang "Discipline equals freedom." —Jocko Willink (page 412)
~ Timothy Ferriss
Maxims and Reflections by Goethe:
~ Timothy Ferriss