Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

Reading maketh a full man.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.