If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patentl...
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.
Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called healthy is generally unhealthy, just as social networks are antisocial, and the knowledge-based economy is typically ignorant.
We end up populating what we call the intelligentsia with people who are delusional, literally mentally deranged, simply because they never have to pay for the consequences of their actions, repeating...
Rewriting the history of technology. How, in science, history is rewritten by the losers and how I saw it in my own business and how we can generalize. Does knowledge of biology hurt medicine? Hiding...
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. If every trial provides you with information about what doe...
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point