Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 11, “Those Foolish Things” (p. 239)
“It was investing when you know something no one else knows.”
Andy Kessler (1958) American writer
Part II, Revolution, Object Lesson, p. 63.
Running Money (2004) First Edition
Context: But someone knew and made a killing. It was investing when you know something no one else knows.
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“That most knowing of persons – gossip.”
Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame, line 1.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame
“If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
1890s, The Path of the Law (1897)
Context: If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
“Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”
Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist
