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Quotes from Essays In Biography — John Maynard Keynes

1883–1946 England

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Marshall, remembering his mixed parentage, used to say 'Francis is a charming fellow, but you must be careful with Ysidro!'"

Essays In Biography (1933)

Economics is a very dangerous science.

Essays In Biography (1933)

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.

Essays In Biography (1933)

Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged.

Essays In Biography (1933)

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

Essays In Biography (1933)

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas — and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists.

Essays In Biography (1933)

The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.

Essays In Biography (1933)

If Mr. Lloyd George had no good qualities, no charms, no fascinations, he would not be dangerous. If he were not a syren, we need not fear the whirlpools.

Essays In Biography (1933)

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

Essays In Biography (1933)

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

Essays In Biography (1933)

Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

Essays In Biography (1933)

There were endless possibilities, not out of reach.

Essays In Biography (1933)

Jevons saw the kettle boil and cried out with the delighted voice of a child; Marshall too had seen the kettle boil and sat down silently to build an engine.

Essays In Biography (1933)

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