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"I shall never come to the end of your interests, Fisher. I should say that what you don't know isn't worth knowing." "You are wrong," replied Fisher, with a very unusual abruptness, and even bitterness. "It's what I do know that isn't worth knowing.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl
“If we consider games of chance immoral, then every pursuit of human industry is immoral; for there is not a single one that is not subject to chance, not one wherein you do not risk a loss for the chance of some gain.” THOMAS JEFFERSON, “THOUGHTS ON LOTTERIES,” 1826
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” – Mark Twain
Ah, if he could only die
Mark Twain • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated,” Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.
Burton G. Malkiel • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Twelfth Edition)
“The more you say,” Robert Greene has written, “the more likely you are to say something foolish.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
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