“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Invert, always invert”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“He who thinks little, errs much.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Ideology does some strange things and distorts cognition terribly. If you get a lot of heavy ideology young, and then you start expressing it, you are really locking your brain into a very unfortunate pattern. And you are going to distort your general cognition.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“If you don’t get elementary probability into your repertoire, you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte DisputedIntellect Learning Failure Action Food