The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.Viktor Schauberger
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.Daymond John
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.Isaac Asimov
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.Leo Tolstoy
If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent, and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don’t get too emotional when things go against you.Walter Schloss
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.Christopher Hitchens
It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid.Charlie Munger
Learn from the mistakes of others, for your life will not be long enough to experience everything yourself.Plutarch
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.J.P. Morgan
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.C.S. Lewis
The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.Norm MacDonald
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.Marcel Proust
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use a checklist.Charlie Munger
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time, none, zero.Charlie Munger