John Maynard Keynes, on David Lloyd George and Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III, p. 41

To see the British Prime Minister watching the company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging character, motive, and subconscious impulse, perceiving what each was thinking and even what each was going to say next, and compounding with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor, was to realize that the poor President would be playing blind man's buff in that party.

— John Maynard Keynes on Woodrow Wilson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To see the British Prime Minister watching the company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging character, motive, and subconscious impulse, perceiving what each was thinking and even what each was going to say next, and compounding with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor, was to realize that the poor President would be playing blind man's buff in that party." in the context of "John Maynard Keynes, on David Lloyd George and Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III, p. 41" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Maynard Keynes

About John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.