Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...