Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image ““There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.”” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I don't have any theories-- all I have are the facts.” — Former FBI Special Agent Zack Shelton Copy Share Image
“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.” — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no… — Miltiades Zaphiropoulous Copy Share Image
“Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.” — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“...While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true of theories ...” — Richard C. Cox Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
