John Maynard Keynes

1883–1946 · British economist

Topics: learning, creativity

• His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.

  — John Maynard Keynes

• Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

  — John Maynard Keynes

• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  — John Maynard Keynes

• There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.

  — John Maynard Keynes