Quote of the week – David Hume

“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”

David Hume

The last quotes were from Hannah Arendt, Janet Yellen, Niccolò Machiavelli, Joseph Schumpeter, Piero Sraffa, Winston Churchill, Christina Romer, Esther Duflo, Peter Drucker, Frank Knight, Joan Robinson, Robert Mundell, Alfred Marschall, Janet Yellen, Ludwig von Mises, Thorstein Veblen, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Paul Samuelson, Elinor Ostrom, Robert Solow, Joan Robinson, and Friedrich A. Hayek.

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