I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day.
Ray DalioRead
There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embracing truth is crucial for independent thinking and moral clarity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of truth as a foundation for independent thought and moral comprehension. It suggests that fear of truth can inhibit personal growth and understanding, implying that facing the truth equips one with a clearer perspective on right and wrong, ultimately fostering independence in thought processes.
Themes
TruthIndependenceUnderstandingWisdomThinking
In practice
Example use cases
During a team meeting, I shared this quote to encourage my colleagues to prioritize honesty in our discussions.
More from Ray Dalio
All quotes βThere are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.
Ray DalioRead
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
Ray DalioRead
The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though itβs understandable).
Ray DalioRead
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.
Ray DalioRead
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
Ray DalioRead
Similar quotes
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
H. L. MenckenRead
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
Malcolm GladwellRead
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. LichtenbergRead
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
AesopRead
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
Shams TabriziRead