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Measure Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the…
- You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
- The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm,…
More Measure Quotes
- When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham
- It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler
- An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a… — Wendell Berry