Wisdom Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Things always become obvious after the fact”

“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

“Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.”

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

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.”

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

“المجوهرات كما الأشخاص، في قلب كل منها حكاية دفينة عظيمة تستحق أن تُعرف وتُروى”

“Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.”

“Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.”

“The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.”