Action Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think…

— Alain de Botton

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical…

— Albert Einstein

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

— Rajneesh

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

— Susan Sontag

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green