Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““We ingest probiotics because we don’t eat enough “dirt” anymore.”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“some vegetables are supposed to stay in the dirt and shouldn't be eaten at all.” — Ember Casey Copy Share Image
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“In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“I found a big container and put a bit of water in it, then added the dried shit. Since then, I’ve added my own… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves—"justifying" ourselves.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, who cares if it tastes like cherries?” — Tom Siddell Copy Share Image
“Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“You'll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt.” — Amrit Brar Copy Share Image
“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.” — Debasish Mridha 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