John Maynard Keynes quotes

" Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. " # Words # Love # Life and Living

" Ideas shape the course of history. " # Ideas

" The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. " # Ideas # Difficulties # Lies and Lying

" In the long run we are all dead. " # Death and Dying

" The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. " # Taxes and Taxation # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Happiness

" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. " # Education # Indifference # Politicians and Politics

" The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. " # Ideas # Difficulties # Lies and Lying

" Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. " # Fear # Mediocrity # Travel and Tourism

" Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be... " # America # Freedom # Power

" The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. " # Economy and Economics # Morality # Religion