Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““with a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames).”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Hunger You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“The most awful hunger is the type that is satisfied too soon, before it moves you, before you are moved by it, before it… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“The entire world is hungry. For one thing or another. They thirst. They hunger. They crave. Wine. Entertainment. Knowledge. Sometimes for the mundane work… — Jackie Ivie Copy Share Image
“We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for food... We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for love...” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There is another apt Latin expression: Materiam superabat opus. (The workmanship is better than the material.) The material we've been given genetically, emotionally, financially,… — Ryan Holiday 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