Wisdom Vs Nerdiness Quotes

#1. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Albert Gubay

#3. For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

#4. If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

Jami Attenberg

#7. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Victor Hugo

#10. My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Nassim Nicholas Taleb