Courses Quote by William Hazlitt

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

— John Keats

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

“the thought process: "It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink…

— Virginia Woolf

“The mind can never foresee its own advance”

— Anonymous

“An uncertain and doubting mind leads to fresh world visions and the possibility of new and ever-changing realities.”

— Michael Shermer

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images…

— Laozi

“Once you fall into a steady ebb and flow of interpretation, you might experience a curious side effect: an influx of imagination.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,…

— Arthur Koestler

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right…

— Francis Crick

“Whether they realized it or not, they were doubting possibility, and the unknown. They believed I would fail. And when we only believe what…

— Shreve Stockton

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it…

— Robert Musil