🖋️ Quotes

Random quotes collected from various sources

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” Kenneth Boulding

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” John Kenneth Galbraith

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.” Donella Meadows

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.“ Marcus Aurelius

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” Socrates

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” Seneca

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derek Bok

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.“ Edward Osborne Wilson

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” James Gleick

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Will Durant

Original Quotes

“First you build the fortress and later the castle, otherwise you will lose the castle and be forced to build the fortress.”