Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 245 authors

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have… — Edwin Lefevre
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… — Jack Kerouac
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup? — Nyogen Senzaki
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from… — W. R. Thompson
You donâ€™t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation. — M. L. Stedman
Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the… — John Monks
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a… — William Bell
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which… — Pope Francis
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in… — Lord Kelvin
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not… — P D Ouspensky
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel
The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about… — Mike Patton
The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent. — Phil Cooke
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me,… — Martin Luther
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee… — Jonah Goldberg
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation... — Paulo Coelho
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution.… — Chris Huhne

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