Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Monsieur de Norpois is made to be ashamed of the fact that he expressed a different opinion. Proust did not consider that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
