Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Library, Owners

• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Book, Knowledge

• 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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Bird, Problem

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1782, Random House

• The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Mediums, Profane

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1721, Random House

• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Reading, Unread Books

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.777, Random House

• We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Race, Names

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.28, Random House

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