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Theories Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
- One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something…
- Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran
- There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. — Charley Lau
- In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts
- A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson
- Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which… — Arthur Dove
- Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda