Economists have much to be humble about.

Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.

— Drake

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and…

— Talib Kweli

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

— John Bunyan

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority,…

— Frederick Lenz

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

— George Harrison

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm…

— C. S. Lewis

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man…

— Ezra Taft Benson

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi