Quotes by : Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward....

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly)....

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses....

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next....

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and....

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover....

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status....