“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”. — Edward de Bono.

“Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave.”. — Richard Francis Burton.

“The metric that fools people the most is the appearance of sophistication.”. — Nassim Taleb.

“Historically, scepticism has been mostly scepticism of expert knowledge rather than scepticism about abstract entities like God … all the great sceptics have been largely either religious or, at least, pro-religion.”. — Nassim Taleb.

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking—a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.”. — Carl Sagan.

“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.” . — Thomas Merton.

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”. — John le Carré.

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says, ‘Science teaches such and such,’ he is using the word incorrectly.”. — Richard Feynman.

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”. — Hayek.

“We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics.” . — John Cowperthwaite.

@L0m3z “You can run through an impressive list of disasters brought about by people with very high IQs.”. — Thomas Sowell

@L0m3z “Why anyone would expect better decisions to be made by third parties who pay no price for being wrong is one of the mysteries of our time.”. — Thomas Sowell.

"Oh you think you're so smart and know more than the experts?!". No, I think I'm an idiot and know more than the experts. That's the problem. — @L0m3z

Governing a society means choosing between competing goods—an exercise in wisdom, not just knowledge. An expert may offer technical insight in a narrow field, but that alone doesn't equip them to make moral or societal judgments.

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.” . — Nicholas Murray Butler.

“Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so.”. — Robert A. Heinlein.

@ClickingSeason “The #1 skill set is BS detection.”. — Nassim Taleb

@ClickingSeason “Being properly educated means not believing newspapers after you have read them.”. — G.K. Chesterton.

“Once it becomes impossible to trust "expert" opinion, the most important skill to learn is decision-making under conditions of incomplete information—the gambler's art.”. — @ClickingSeason.

A man's most valuable trait is a .judicious sense of what not to believe. — Euripides.

In politics as in life, .instinct is superior to intelligence. — Ernst Jünger