Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Nature tells every secret once.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Time discovers truth.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.