Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures,… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing… — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
“Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually… — Lord Patterson Coats Copy Share Image
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. . — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“speculation in history is never rock-solid, it is reasonable to think that had the Titanic been launched on schedule, she may not… — Henry Freeman Copy Share Image
But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it,… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of… — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it." "I think he did." Peabody flipped on her sunshades,… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution:… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
