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  • #62
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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  • #63
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #64
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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  • #65
    John Maynard Keynes
    “If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
    tags: animal-spirit, investment
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  • #66
    John Maynard Keynes
    “The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. 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.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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  • #67
    John Maynard Keynes
    “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: open-mindedness, science
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  • #68
    John Maynard Keynes
    “If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: banking, debt, economics
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  • #69
    John Maynard Keynes
    “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: right, wrong
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  • #70
    John Maynard Keynes
    “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: economics, ideas
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  • #71
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
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  • #72
    John Maynard Keynes
    “The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: individuality, wisdom
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  • #73
    John Maynard Keynes
    “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”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: banking, capital, casino, keynes
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  • #74
    John Maynard Keynes
    “When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
    tags: compromise, negotiation
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  • #75
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Ideas shape the course of history.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
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  • #76
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
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  • #77
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
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  • #78
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: isaac-newton, magic, science
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  • #79
    John Maynard Keynes
    “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: history, ideas, opinion
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  • #80
    John Maynard Keynes
    “Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: complexity, economics, mathematics
    40 likes

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  • #81
    John Maynard Keynes
    “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: assumptions, thinking, tradition
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  • #82
    John Maynard Keynes
    “The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes
    tags: business, contributions, society, wealth
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  • #83
    John Maynard Keynes
    “By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”
    ― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
    tags: banking, corruption, economics, government
    32 likes

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  • #84
    Samuel Johnson
    “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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  • #85
    Omar Khayyám
    “To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
    Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
    You better starve, than eat whatever
    And better be alone, than with whoever.”
    ― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat
    tags: relationships, wisdom
    466 likes

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  • #86
    Oscar Wilde
    “I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: lifestyle, living, oscar-wilde
    228 likes

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  • #87
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #88
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #89
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #90
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #91
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25507 likes



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