Only the autodidacts are free.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, po…

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb