"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." — Thomas Henry Huxley
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." — Voltaire
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world." — Voltaire
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." — Stephen Hawking
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." — Richard P. Feynman
"Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain." — Richard P. Feynman
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." — William James
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." — Kurt Vonnegut
"You are remembered for the rules you break." — Douglas MacArthur
"Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists." — Thomas Friedman
"There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know." — John Kenneth Galbraith
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud." — Nassim Taleb
"Everything in moderation, including moderation." — Oscar Wilde
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." — Dwight D Eisenhower
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." — J.K. Rowling
"Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies." — Montaigne
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." — Warren Buffett
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut." — Warren Buffett
"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right." — Theodore Roosevelt
"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." — Charlie Munger
"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at 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." — Charlie Munger