Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fool Quotations

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.