Speculation Quotes · Page 7

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

— John Stuart Mill

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

— Niels Bohr

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

— Michael Steinhardt

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

— George Washington

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

— Phil Cooke

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Speculation is the worst enemy that anybody could have as a companion.”

— Usman Aman

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Investment is focusing on the asset and what that asset will earn, while speculation focuses on the price and predicting what the…

— Anonymous

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and…

— John Tillotson

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

— Benjamin Graham

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

— Camille Paglia

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

— Anonymous

Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it…

— Stephanie Mills

I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for…

— Bernie Sanders

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of…

— Michel Foucault

Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable…

— Noam Chomsky

After campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of September. Report adds to growing speculation that Donald…

— Chris Hayes

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin…

— Tim Crane

I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so…

— George Clooney

“There had always been aspects of the daily management of Birnam Wood that Mira had seen as her beneath her; she had…

— Eleanor Catton

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the…

— Bertrand Russell

“It must be understood then that there are certain things which, since they are not subject to our power, are matters of…

— Dante Alighieri

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet…

— George Washington

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science…

— Anonymous

There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of…

— Martin Schulz

I think everybody in this generation, and I'm the leading edge of the baby boom - I was born in 1946 -…

— David Stockman

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

— Carl Jung

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

— Anonymous

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

— Jane Smiley

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with…

— Charles Darwin

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that…

— Billy Crudup

“A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

— Peter Medawar

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