"We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes (page 8 of 18)
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"What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves."
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"Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative."
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"Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms."
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"Information is bad for knowledge."
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"Only the autodidacts are free."
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"An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion."
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"Never take advice from someone wearing a tie."
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"The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds"
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"The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it."
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"Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories."
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"What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get."
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"I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand."
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"What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure."
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"Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner."
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"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible."
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"When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure."
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"The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses."
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"An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite."
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"When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line."
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