John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Psychology

6 quotes

  1. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

  2. In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

  3. The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

  4. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

  5. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

  6. We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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