keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Yet they believe blindly in the stock market, and in the abilities of their pension plan manager. Why do they do so? Because they accept that this is what people should do with their savings, because "experts" tell them so. The doubt their own sense, but not for a second do they doubt their automatic purchases in the stock market."

Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity, meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once.

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.