Speculation Quotes · Page 4

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

— Alice Munro

There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

There is a lot of speculation about whether I am gay or straight. People actually ask my friends.

— Arjun Mathur

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

— Samuel Rutherford

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business”

— Henry Ford

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

— Freeman Dyson

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

— William Hazlitt

As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and…

— Amanda Knox

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that…

— Norman O. Brown

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country,…

— Eliza Griswold

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified…

— Michael Crichton

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is…

— William Cobbett

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no…

— Karl Marx

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it…

— Lord Kelvin

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a…

— Gary Ross

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently…

— Warren Buffett

“He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk--why had she said this? what had she meant by that?…

— Henry Blake Fuller

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in…

— Ida Tarbell

In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a…

— John Maynard Keynes

There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer…

— Noel-Antoine Pluche

Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm…

— Alberto Gonzales

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“The necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that it is by…

— G Edward Griffin

Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer…

— Percival Lowell

“Fred Harrison explains in The Power in the Land how land values over time become so expensive that too little wealth is…

— Martin Adams

Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and…

— David Hume

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

— Alexander Lebedev

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick.

— Lorrie Morgan

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

— Gautama Buddha

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

— Louisa May Alcott