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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    tags: charm, enfp-vs-intj, flirting, game, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, seduction
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: art, autism, humor, intelligence, nerd, nerds, sense-of-humor, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerdiness, wit
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    tags: intelligence, iq, nerd, nerdery, nerds, truths, wisdom
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: heart, love, man, sea, soul, storms
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: clarity-of-thought, fragility, internet-addiction, modern-values, modernity, modernity-is-a-sickness, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, robustness, wisdom-vs-nerdiness
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    Jerome Groopman
    “Statistics cannot substitute for the human being before you; statistics embody averages, not individuals.”
    ― Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think
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