William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

The risk a lot of times, in my mind - and I may be incorrect - the risk of challenging people directly with their beliefs is that society is such that there's too many of us, so a direct challenge automatically engages people's defenses.

Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.