Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
-
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
-
I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
-
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
-
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
-
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
-
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
-
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
-
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
-
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
-
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
-
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
-
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.
-
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
-
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
-
I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
-
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
-
It's kind of weird - I get shy when I'm around new people, still, even when I'm onstage. I come from not really wanting to be in lights or known or in front of people.
-
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
-
My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.
-
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
