Deny Quote by Peter L. Bernstein Download Open image “The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds” — Peter L. Bernstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deny Economics Ignorance Time Unkind
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods. — Polybius Copy Share Image
“Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to say “If the Lord wills” after every sentence, but it must be in our heads and hearts. We must live… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Time matters most when decisions are irreversible. And yet many irreversible decisions must be made on the basis of incomplete information.” — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“[The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.” — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate.… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“So we pour in data from the past to fuel the decision-making mechanisms created by our models, be they linear or nonlinear. But therein… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.” — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“His local campaigns around Macedonia also augmented that absolutely essential economic resource: slaves-slaves to work the mines, slaves to work the fields, slaves to… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet… — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image