Leo Tolstoy Quote
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Leo Tolstoy Quote


I finally got around to watching Michael Lewis on Charlie Rose, and the interview ended with a Tolstoy quote from Lewis’ book that was too good not to post here:

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." –Leo Tolstoy





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How Fortunes are Made in the Stock Market (LINK) Related book: 100 to 1 in the stock market (You can also find a few quotes I posted from this book, HERE.)Acemoglu and Robinson on Piketty (LINK) Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and...

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- Michael Lewis On Charlie Rose
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Without The Blind Side, the Tuohys would be a family of local saints; with it, they are something like national heroes, touring the country from speaking engagement to speaking engagement on a kind of paid victory lap. They may be the most enterprising...



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