Cognitive Quote by Lionel Shriver

A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck…

— Lionel Shriver

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

— Charles Krauthammer

“Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word “pretentious” as a weapon with which to…

— Dan Fox

“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”

— Petronius

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

— Benjamin Banneker

“Contrarians Expect Mean Reversion”

— Tobias Carlisle

“Sometimes our worst premonitions are the least reliable.”

— Oliver Bowden

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil…

— James Madison

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

— Mark Twight

“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to…

— Judith Butler

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

— Gordon B. Hinckley