Attention Quote by Thomas Malthus

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every skill, methods, strategies will only be a theory, unless you proof it to yourself that's true and work

— Hendra Hilman

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and…

— Stephen Toulmin

The best theory is inspired by practice.

— Donald Knuth

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

— Kimon Nicolaides

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

— Mason Cooley

What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant…

— Noreena Hertz

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult…

— Peter D. Mitchell

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in…

— Seneca the Younger

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

— Francis Parker Yockey