“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
“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.”
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.”
“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
“When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.”
“The commonest virtues of the individual are often lacking in the spokesmen of nations; a statesman representing not himself but his country may prove, without incurring excessive blame—as history often records—vindictive, perfidious, and egotistic.”
