We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is. — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image