John Maynard Quotations

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

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

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens