Admiring Quote by Gerard 't Hooft

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

— Romain Rolland

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

— John McCarthy

Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them.…

— Ambrose Bierce

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

— Stephen Harper

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

— Alice Neel

Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you. Focus on the positives, and soon the negatives will be harder to see.

— Nate

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

— Linus Torvalds

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

— Carl Jung

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

— Carl Whitaker

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

— Glenn Beck