Psychology Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he…

— Céleste Albaret

“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All”

— George Orwell

“Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.”

— Marcel Proust

“He had come to prospect the intentions of Charles towards the French and the Anglo-Austrian coalition, and even if Charles had thrown his jack-boot…

— William Bolitho

“What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the…

— Margaret Atwood

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give a true account, for there were no thoughts in Ivan's mind but…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds…

— Edith Pargeter

“... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.”

— Ernesto Spinelli