To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while,… — Prince William Copy Share Image
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . .… — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enough to sacrifice his trust and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they… — Adam Draper Copy Share Image
There is always speculation about me and Palmeiras, precisely because of the affection I have for the team and I have made… — Hulk 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
In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P. D. James 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
“When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
“While speculation is accepted at the forefront of the scientific community, it holds no place in the fundamentals of Christianity.” — Calvin W. Allison 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
.. 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
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of… — Louise Talma Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
