Maxims


Maxims
Maxims and Reflections
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Return to Freedom: A Traveler's Thoughts on Life, Love and the Fate of the World
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Maxims for Revolutionists
Tao Te Ching
Meditations
Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims
Napoleon's Maxims of War
Scorn: The Wickedest Insults in Human History
Maxims Minimus: Reflections in Microstyle
Vectors by James RichardsonNightwatch by James Garrabrant300 Arguments by Sarah MangusoA Silence of Words by Olivia DresherLittle Labors by Rivka Galchen
Contemporary American aphorists
13 books — 1 voter
Commonplace Book by E.M. ForsterShepherd's Notes by Duane A. GarrettA Commonplace Book by Alec GuinnessJohn Milton and His Commonplace Book by Ruth MohlSur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects by Milton J. Bates
Commonplace Books
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Abhaidev
Just because an idea is ingenious doesn’t mean it’s true.
Abhaidev, Notes from the Edge of Sanity

Maxims Hidden in the Text Try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again. John Maynard Keynes cycled through these steps ceaselessly. 178 An imperfect decision made in time is better than a perfect one made too late. 215-216 Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces slogan. 222 If we ask many tiny pertinent questions, we can close in on an answer for the big question. 263
Philip E. Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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