John Kenneth Galbraith Mind Quotations

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.