“Being able to recognize that you are wrong is a godsend.”
Charlie Munger
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“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“So you have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Invert, always invert”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren reads—and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
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“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra Disputed“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary sourceObjectivity Mistakes Self-Awareness