Black swan Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““[...] what you see is likely to be less Black Swannish than what you do not see.”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black swan Seen Unknown Unseen
“...when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The more of it there is, The less you will ever see. What is it? It is darkness.” — C.L. Bevill Copy Share Image
“Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
“What shines in the dark is greater than what glows in the light.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Only what is in the dark tries to dull the light of what shines.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“it is what you are striving for which is important, not how you appear.” — Michael Newton Copy Share Image
“We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Things aren't as black or white as they seem, Mia. Don't let your head get so locked in one direction that you can't see… — Shannon Stoker 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
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do… — Kaetlyn Osmond Copy Share Image
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her for her… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The scientific method asserts that one cannot prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Seeing more white swans may strengthen the hypothesis, but seeing a… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
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