Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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