Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 245 authors

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal… — Roger Bacon
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried… — Mikhail Bakunin
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his… — Honore de Balzac
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil… — James Buchan
This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican… — Madeleine Albright
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. — Samuel Butler
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a… — Lord Byron
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for… — Jackie Chan
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing… — William Cobbett
It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't… — Robin Meade
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such… — Edward Hoagland
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it… — Arnold Haultain
It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have… — Jim Dodge
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a… — Morris Raphael Cohen
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell

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