The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. . — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
After campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of September. Report adds to growing speculation that Donald… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work… — Leonard Cohen 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
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick 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
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from… — Teju Cole 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
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
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
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
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. — Joseph Addison 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
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
