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The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.
— Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You need a story to displace a story.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a Yiddish saying: If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb