Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
Raha Moharrak
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
Sam Brownback
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Felicity Kendal
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
Natalie Gulbis
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
B. B. King
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
Rand Paul
I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
Camila Alves
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
Omari Hardwick
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
Moliere
Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell
I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
Christopher Nolan
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
Camille Claudel
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
