Language Quote by John Maynard Keynes Download Open image ““Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”” — John Maynard Keynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
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“The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image