Quote by Bernard Baruch

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a s

Summary

This quote highlights the importance of self-awareness in utilizing one's mind effectively. By truly knowing oneself, including one's limitations, biases, and personal inclinations, it becomes possible to distinguish personal perspectives from objective observations. Furthermore, understanding whether one has thoroughly contemplated the essence of a matter or simply lacks critical thinking allows for more rational decision-making. Ultimately, acknowledging and harnessing self-awareness empowers an individual to use their mind as a discerning tool.

Topics

By Bernard Baruch

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above al

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the an

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Abraham Lincoln

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are goi

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely len

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

Garrett Hedlund

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Benjamin Franklin

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this compar

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

All the information you could want is constantly streaming a

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Katherine Jenkins

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures w

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

Terry Pratchett