Wisdom Vs Nerds Quotes

#1. I think I could use a library, she answered finally.

Michele Jaffe

#2. The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Gilles Deleuze

#3. From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

Namie Amuro

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

Matt Smith

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. 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

#10. The reason sex is fun is not to cater to the desire for individual human pleasure, but because hunanity would have ceased to exist a long time ago if it were drudgery.

Joe Beaton

#11. I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Melissa George

#12. Her laugh did something to him, Quill realized. Touched some part of him that admired her indefatigable spirit. Despite her discomfort and distress at being drenched, she was in possession of the sort of temperament that did not allow the petty annoyances of life to dampen her spirit.

Manda Collins

#13. A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

Kirsten Dunst

#14. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone's 'interesting opinions' so personally.

Raphael Zernoff