Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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

• When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Information, Opinion, Weak

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.144, Random House

• Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Portfolios, Opinion, Recommendations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

• There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Our World, Practice, Secret

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.335, Random House

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