John Maynard Keynes Quotes

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

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.