Belief Quote by Rajneesh

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

— Frank Herbert

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

— Alex Chiu

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

— John Ryman

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps…

— Marya Hornbacher

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

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to…

— Terence McKenna