Quotes for All
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. … a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou’d lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to … Read more
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he … Read more
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past. Edwin Lefevre
Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth. Edward Thomson
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other. Friedrich Nietzsche
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner. Friedrich Nietzsche
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that … Read more
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from … Read more
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. Francis Atterbury