Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
