Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

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• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Understand

• Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Son
  • Ignorance

• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • King
  • Queen

• There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • America
  • Know
  • Situation

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Friends
  • New
  • New Friends

• Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Challenge

• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Risk

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Want
  • Myself

• I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Dream
  • Star
  • Monster

• I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Career
  • Me
  • Decisions

• It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient is steep, and, given time, you can find yourself in a previously unattainable place.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Die
  • Forever

• It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Up
  • Bird

• Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Hate
  • Honor

• In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Lyrics
  • Cousin

• Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

  

  Jan C. Ting
  • Learning
  • Immigration

• I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

  

  Arlene J. Chai
  • Reality
  • Choices
  • Moment

• Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb