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Knowledge Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to…
- We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the…
- It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too…
- We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
- Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in…
- The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books…
- The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov