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• Impatience with actions, patience with results.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• After ten years of studying the best self-help and wisdom, you will be one of the most powerful people on the planet.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom

• God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty that may be enlarged in proportion to the diligence given to the light communicated from heaven.

  — Joseph SmithLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.

  — BuddhaLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  — BuddhaLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• The only part you cannot outsource is judgment.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• In an age of infinite leverage, judgment is the most important skill.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Intelligence plus experience equals wisdom. Wisdom breeds peace. Peace in motion is happiness.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• It is the nature of truth that once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• All truth is a one-way door.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Lies have speed, but truth has endurance.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom

• The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

  — George OrwellLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Hell is truth seen too late.

  — Thomas HobbesLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Clear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Think for yourself, not of yourself. Think of others, not for others.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Think clearly from the ground up. Understand and explain from first principles. Acknowledge what you have. Control your emotions.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• The smarter you get, the slower you read.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• We question all of our beliefs except those we truly believe, and those we never think to question.

  — Orson Scott CardLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• You will learn more being fascinated by life than by being frustrated by it.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom

• The further you look into the past, the further you can see into the future.

  — Winston ChurchillLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• The things we understand create silence. The things we do not create emotion.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom