A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An option hides where we don't want it to hide.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

Gilbert Arenas

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Rene Magritte

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

I'm looking into making toilet paper. It's not an option unless you a bum and gotta use newspaper. It's not an option. Like, it's an option if you wanna drive a car. It's an option if you wanna use a straw. It's an option if you wanna wear a pair of Nikes or Reeboks.

Cam'ron

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

John Stott

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Josh Billings

In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.

X. J. Kennedy

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

Jonathan Lethem

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Shimon Peres

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

George Augustus Henry Sala

I don't want to hide anything - there is nothing to hide.

Carnie Wilson

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

Phyllis Bottome

If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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