We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
- War remains the decisive human failure.
- In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.