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  • #1
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #4
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #5
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    Marie Curie

  • #6
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #7
    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    Walter H. Cottingham

  • #8
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #10
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

  • #11
    Rollo May
    “Another root of our malady is our loss of the sense of the worth and dignity of the human being. Nietzsche predicted this when he pointed out that the individual was being swallowed up in the herd, and that we were living by a “slave-morality.” Marx also predicted it when he proclaimed that modern man was being “de-humanized,” and Kafka showed in his amazing stories how people literally can lose their identity as persons.”
    Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself



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