Nate Silver Quotes

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

All experience is good experience.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Know or listen to those who know.