"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a â€˜dismal science.â€™ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

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Source : "The Speech Pope Francis Should Have Given" by Lawrence W. Reed, fee.org. September 24, 2015.

Murray Rothbard

#Ignorance Quotes #Discipline Quotes #People Quotes

“The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!”
“I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.”
“... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.”
“People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who donâ€™t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.”
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
“God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.”
“Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.”

Source : Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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