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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational Quotes (204)

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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
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It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
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They are born, put in a box they go home to live in a box they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called work in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box they talk about thinking outside the box and when they die they are put in a box.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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