Habits Quote by Roger Schwarz

“A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It seems that the desire to oppress others is so ingrained in many humans that they readily distort even a liberating theory or concept…

— Marjorie Spiegel

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what…

— Steven Pinker

“Putting theory into practice is hard for them,” writes Gallagher, “because their sensitive natures and elaborate schemes are unsuited to the heterogeneous rigors of…

— Susan Cain

“People conspire, that's not a theory.”

— Michael Palmero

“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

“The theory of crisis is not just a theory of fear but also a theory of hope.”

— John Holloway

“The value of a physical theory depends upon its usefulness. In this sense the history of physical theories might be said to resemble the…

— Gary Zukav

“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

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in…

— Henri Matisse

“I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.”

— Stephen Richards