Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the...

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so...

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so...

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit...

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit...

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.

The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.

What this country needs is less public speaking and more private thinking

What this country needs is less public speaking and more private thinking