Knows Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

14 Knows quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb’s often is blunt and often, turning the concept of knowledge into a test of resilience. These fourteen quotes cut straight to the core of uncertainty and human bias.

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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

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You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

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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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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

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My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have…

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We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to…

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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from…

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You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool…

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A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if…

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Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I…

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If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular…

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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and…

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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a…

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Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

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“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking…

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“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they…

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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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