Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“You don't need a prophet to wake you up from your bed; you need no archbishop to describe the size of your spoon for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.” — Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi Copy Share Image
“Dealing with Prophet wasn’t entirely unlike dealing with a live grenade or a Claymore mine. You had to know when to ease off the… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
“Preacher, of all the world's races, our love- or rather our rapacity-for treasure, gold, spices, and dominion, oh, most of all, sweet dominion, is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I find a preacher of the Gospel profaning the beautiful and prophetic ejaculation, commonly called “Nunc dimittis,” made on the first presentation of our… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
“he affected great piety (as became a pilgrim), although unable to read the inspired words of the Prophet.” — Jose Conrad Copy Share Image
“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.” — Nasir Jones Copy Share Image
“Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great… — Charlotte Brontë 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
