Quote

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

John Maynard Keynes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
Businessperson
Diplomat
Economist
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Politician
Professor
Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
Vastness
Heavens
Humble
Least
Heaven
Feel
Feels

More quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Image
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The duty of saving became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side? He said, That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
John Maynard Keynes
Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere it satisfies no ideal it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
John Maynard Keynes
Image
Economics is a very dangerous science.
John Maynard Keynes