Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle Copy Share Image
speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“this is more in the category of late-night herb-inspired speculation than actual scientific prediction.” — Jorge Cham Copy Share Image
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid,… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore 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
I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to… — Andrew Ference Copy Share Image
The speculation about it is interesting but the impossibility of ever doing it is so certain that it is not practically useful.… — Dr Robert H Goddard Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any… — Robert Luskin Copy Share Image
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Following the 2008 season nothing further was attempted until after the First World War the Stonehenge had by its time to come… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Trading is a small part of the work of the stock exchanges. They are really to do with financial speculation, and they… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The… — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
