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“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.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies.”
― القرآن الكريم
― القرآن الكريم
“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.”
― القرآن الكريم
― القرآن الكريم
“Do not try to be humble: learn humility.”
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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