Nate Silver Quotes

There is something in omens.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.