Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Doctors, Medicine, Mixing

• If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Giving, Information, Belief

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Laughing, Owing, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.827, Random House

• Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Believe, Impact, Talking

  "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the Prophet of Boom and Doom" by Bryan Appleyard, www.thetimes.co.uk. June 01 2008,.

• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Odds, Alternatives, Outcomes

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Penguin UK

• Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Belief, Liquor, Restaurants

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

• Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  May, Causes, Belief

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.203, Random House

• My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Play, Decision

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.259, Random House

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