Information is bad for knowledge.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.