Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.Gary ZukavAvoidanceLearningReflection Share this
Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.Aldous HuxleyAvoidanceReflection Share this
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.Abu Ammaar Yasir QadhiAvoidanceLearningReflection Share this
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.Konrad AdenauerAvoidanceConsequencesReflection Share this
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.Victor HugoAvoidanceHistoryReflection Share this
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.Zelda FitzgeraldAvoidanceLearningReflection Share this
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.Terry PratchettAvoidanceReflectionSelf-awareness Share this
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.Bertrand RussellAvoidanceConformityReflection Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity
