Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
