Nassim Nicholas Taleb Short Quotes

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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.

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I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

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What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.

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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them.

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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

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It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

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Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.

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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

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Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

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