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Theory Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action…
- It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities…
- The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men…
- Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in…
- The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have…
- The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that…
- The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability…
- Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the…
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- People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so… — Christian Bale
- 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
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh
- All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. — Yogi Berra