Famous Quotes

"I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve."

Nate Silver on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Nate Silver

• "I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation."

• "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."

• "When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake."

• "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."

• "We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise."