"A prophet is not someone with special visions,……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see"

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…

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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is… — Francis Bacon
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because… — Gerry Adams
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with… — Martha Beck
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of… — Theodor Adorno
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in… — Josh Billings
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind… — Cate Blanchett
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is… — Andrea Bocelli
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than… — Andrea Bocelli
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking. — Christina Aguilera

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