Facts Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Things always become obvious after the fact” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facts Obvious
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it… — Kevin Hearne 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
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
