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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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Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
— Wilferd Peterson
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
— Saadi
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Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.
— Mooji
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
— Umar
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I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly…
— William Shakespeare
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Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow…
— Ralph Marston
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will…
— Zhuangzi
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If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into…
— Mencius
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REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to…
— Marianne Williamson
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom…
— Pema Chodron
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion;…
— Madeleine Albright
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