In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

Somewhere within you is a huge supply of happiness, always there, patiently waiting for you to reach out and grab it. It’s yours for the asking. And you ask by giving it your attention.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.