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John Kenneth Galbraith
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. - Friedrich Von Schiller, as quoted by Bernard Baruch”
John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Thomas Carlyle
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Thomas Carlyle

Sigmund Freud
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.”
Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

John Maynard Keynes
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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