Certificates Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certificates Impotence Threat
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“there is more strength in admitting vulnerability than in faking invincibility” — Rick Julian Copy Share Image
“But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength of the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
People who use a lot of swear words, tend to be more honest and trust worthy, human behavioral studies suggest — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“The police need to learn that repeatedly threatening to arrest a person that is fully compliant is going to make life harder for them… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim’s perceptions.” — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures. — Orly Taitz Copy Share Image
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I have people that have been studying [Obama's birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they're finding... I would like to have him show… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image