“Economics is really about understanding the world – and changing it – and not in a messianic fashion, but in an honest fashion.”
James J. Heckman, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 12, 2000
“It ain’t what a man don’t know as makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.”
The “homely wisdom of Josh Billings (1818-1885)” quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra’s Nose
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
“British novelist G. B. Stearn” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail November 15, 2007