Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
Prime Ministers Questions, 30 January 1997.
1990s
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
“A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness …”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Albert Lutuli (1898–1967) South African politician
As quoted in Guy Arnold (1976), The last bunker: a report on white South Africa today, p. 192.
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Letter to his parents (18 September 1938) after Neville Chamberlain's meeting with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 47.
1930s
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 157
“The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.”
Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer
Bad News, Chapter 12
“Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El hombre es débil y cuando ejerce la profesíon de fuerte es más débil.
Voces (1943)
“The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica