Knowledge Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation.”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge Knowledge gained
“The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built.” — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.” — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
“Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“if you know where you are putting your foot , you will see any traps and be able to avoid them” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Humans have not known anything. Knowing is when no weakness remains.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of knowledge that stows away in our subconscious. We don't notice it because it's practiced at staying concealed as it travels… — Hansjorg Schertenleib Copy Share Image
“But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity would blow… — Hugh Howey 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
