Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““Light control works; close control leads to overreaction,”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“They could not handle my Light. Now, They will have to deal with my darkness.” — A. Mani Copy Share Image
“The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Don't ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Where there is control there is no life. Control repulses all love and light.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When you’re someone who likes control, this world can often resemble staring into a broken mirror. You see the sharp, ragged edges but lose… — Travis Thrasher 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
