Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 243 authors

The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a… — Brennan Manning
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas.… — James Joyce
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peaceâ€”business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. — Michael Crichton
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - — Louisa May Alcott
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon… — Winston Churchill
The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From… — Edward Said
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. — Lawrence M. Krauss
The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation. — Susan Wittig Albert
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. — Alice Munro
But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone… — Kiera Cass
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. — Joseph Addison
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept. — Bhakti Charu Swami
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. — Samuel Johnson
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way… — George Smoot
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and… — Teju Cole
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. — Deepak Chopra

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