Academic Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ... in the…

— John Maynard Keynes

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one…

— Bertrand Russell

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those…

— Jon Ronson

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

— Ayn Rand

“The man who can organize and direct a "Master Mind" group of men who possess knowledge useful in the accumulation of money, is just…

— Napoleon Hill

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

— Charles Fillmore

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores…

— Honore de Balzac

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.…

— J.D. Salinger

“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

— Anonymous

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone…

— Gao Xingjian