Academics Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

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

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb