“In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.”
More from John Kenneth Galbraith on Philosophy
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”
“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”
“If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale”
“The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.”
“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Paul Valéry
13 quotes“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”