X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational Quotes (204)

Page 1 of 9
Filter & Style
Image
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns) in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Love without sacrifice is like theft
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Previous
Next