WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/77501/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b></a></p><blockquote>Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.</blockquote><p><b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b> (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist<br><i>The Black Swan</i>, Part 2, ch. 13 “Appelles the Painter, or What Do You Do If You Cannot Predict” (2007)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/77501/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=blackswan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackswan</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conclusion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danger</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plausibility</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=potential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>potential</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=prediction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prediction</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=riskanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riskanalysis</span></a></p>