An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
Nassim Nicholas TalebPoverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWe favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
Nassim Nicholas TalebPrediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb