Nassim Nicholas Taleb on character

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden1910–2010

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus55–120

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 27