“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
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Famous Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
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Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
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“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”
“Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“For the robust, an error is information.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.”
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Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“You never win an argument until they attack your person.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.”
“Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.”
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Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.”
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“Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Information is bad for knowledge.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.”
“The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.”
“People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.”