Charles Darwin, creator of the theory of biological evolution via natural selection, stating an early version of what is now known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Herbert Simon, American social and political scientist:
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
Andre Comte-Sponville, contemporary French philosopher:
“The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame… Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air… The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragically. He goes on [...]
Charlie Munger, master investor and long-time business associate of Warren Buffett:
“The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It’s powerful because it’s so rare.”
Ovid, Early Roman poet who is considered the greatest literary master of the elegiac couplet:
“We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt [...]
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tibetian Buddhist monk and teacher:
“Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat.”
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, French mystery novelist:
“Pleasure is the happiness of madmen, while happiness is the pleasure of sages.”
Luca and Francesco [...]
Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Emperor of Rome from 161 - 180 CE:
“Look within; within is the fountain of all good.”
James Yorke, mathematician and physicist known for his work on chaos theory:
“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”
Charles Darwin, creator of the biological theory of evolution via natural selection:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survices, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
General Eric [...]
I am responsible.
I am awareness.
I am creation.
I am consciousness.
I am justice, courage, benevolence, life.
I am injustice, cowardice, malevolence, death.
I alone create the contradictions in myself.
I am the order and I am the void.
I am Mother Theresa.
I am Adolph Hitler.
I am the whitest of the light and the blackest of the dark.
I am the sickness. I [...]
Samuel Butler, 17th-century British poet:
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.”