Dull Quote by Oswald Spengler

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull…

— Oswald Spengler

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

— Yoko Taro

There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.

— Elizabeth Warren

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

— Jonathon Keats

There are many philanthropists who we admire and have learned a great deal from, including mentors like Bill and Melinda Gates and peers like…

— Priscilla Chan

“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

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that “people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather…

— Sally Hogshead

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

— Edith Green