Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Much learning does not teach sense.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.