Absence Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read…

— Adam Zagajewski

These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very…

— Tony Hoagland

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

— David McCullough

Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one.…

— Dan Brown

“For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship --…

— Alice Kimberly

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem...…

— Frances Brooke

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness,…

— Chinua Achebe