Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Civilization, Risk, Progress

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 11, 2014

• I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Common Sense, Age, Collections

• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Age, Heroism, Youth

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Men, Dying, Age

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.28, Random House

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