Argument Quote by William Stanley Jevons Download Open image “A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.” — William Stanley Jevons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Facts Littles Logic Theory
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Never underlook the words of someone giving you advice from experience, cuz there is clear difference between theory and practical. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.” — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image