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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
— Omar N. Bradley
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…
— Edmund Burke
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
— Herbie Hancock
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
— Edmund Burke
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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he…
— Gautama Buddha
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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who…
— Gautama Buddha
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
— James Anthony Froude
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any…
— H. L. Mencken
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Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
— Patricia Hill Collins
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle -…
— Ajahn Chah
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We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is…
— Iain Pears
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