Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

Education is our passport to the future.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today if it wasn't for years of education.

Education is the only solution. Education first.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

There is no future without education.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Few things are as essential as education.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I think you never stop learning.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I need to learn every day.