“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking”.

H.L. Mencken

“We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.”

Justice Louis Brandeis

“When you’re right, nobody remembers. When you’re wrong, nobody forgets.”

Muhammad Ali

“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

H.L. Menken

“A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library”.

Daniel Dennett

“While it takes as much skill to make a sword or a ploughshare, it takes a critical understanding of human values to prefer the ploughshare.”

Walter Lippmann, in his first Editorial for the New Republic, 1918.

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention”.

Herbert Simon

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

Isaac Asimov

“The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions”.

Paul Samuelson, writing 50 years ago, quoted by Larry Summers in yesterday’s Financial Times.