Civilisation Quote by Peter Cundill Download Open image “Curiosity is the engine of civilisation” — Peter Cundill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Culture Curiosity Engines
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is… — Loren Rhoads Copy Share Image
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn’t do it anyway so you have to have a… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
