Speculation Quotes

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

— Johnny Hunt

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

— Anonymous

“Moral speculation was puny compared to moral action.”

— Paul Kalanithi

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

— Anonymous

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

— Nargis Fakhri

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

— David Willetts

There's always speculation around the best players.

— Ryan Mason

I'm not much into speculation.

— Bernie Sanders

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

— Marcello Malpighi

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

— Judy Woodruff

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

— Ted Baillieu

“Speculation led to disaster, he realized, and he needed to always ignore the “mad crowd” and its inclinations.”

— Ryan Holiday

“All this is the flimsiest speculation, which is God’s gift to historical fictioneers.”

— William T. Vollmann

“All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.”

— Margaret Atwood

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

— Scott Ritter

The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation…

— Anonymous

“suggests, rather extraordinary with regard to accusation and speculation. Take, for example, this excerpt from page 9: (One source) states in a…

— M. William Phelps

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its…

— Richard Corliss

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't…

— Lauren London

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the…

— John Keats

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

— Roger Cotes

The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control…

— Pope Francis

“Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.”

— Émile Zola

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms…

— Edwin Lefevre

“I think a lot about the might-have-beens, the what-ifs. About the little places in history where one tiny, minute change can lead…

— Lavie Tidhar

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but…

— Gilbert Burnet

We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty…

— John Calvin

We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are…

— Tim Crane

It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making…

— Hilary Mantel

Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity…

— Seth Klarman

We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former…

— Richard Blumenthal

“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

“The necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that it is by…

— G Edward Griffin

Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer…

— Percival Lowell

The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of…

— Cesar Milstein

“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money…

— Mark Twain

Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm…

— Alberto Gonzales