Theory Quotes
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. (Quote by - Thomas Malthus)
A theory must be tempered with reality. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. (Quote by - Matt Damon)
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. (Quote by - James Hillman)
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. (Quote by - Jefferson Davis)
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Architecture theory is very interesting. (Quote by - David Byrne)
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. (Quote by - Thomas Kuhn)
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. (Quote by - James D. Watson)
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society. (Quote by - James Hillman)
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. (Quote by - Neil Patrick Harris)
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. (Quote by - Hunter S. Thompson)
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. (Quote by - Billy Joel)
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. (Quote by - Rudolf Arnheim)
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus)
Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. (Quote by - Voltaire)
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Quote by - Edward W. Howe)
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. (Quote by - Rudolf Arnheim)
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. (Quote by - Shaquille O'Neal)
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. (Quote by - Brian Greene)
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that. (Quote by - Jack Nicholson)
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent. (Quote by - Sheryl Crow)
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? (Quote by - Friedrich August von Hayek)
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. (Quote by - Rudolf Arnheim)
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. (Quote by - Thomas Malthus)
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality. (Quote by - Paul Watzlawick)
I have just got a new theory of eternity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
There is no complete theory of anything. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
Is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. (Quote by - Jimmy Swaggart)
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. (Quote by - Brian Greene)
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. (Quote by - Richard P. Feynman)
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. (Quote by - Gottfried Leibniz)
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. (Quote by - Jessica Alba)
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. (Quote by - Paul Farmer)
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant. (Quote by - Manfred Eigen)
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. (Quote by - Richard P. Feynman)
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement. (Quote by - Rudolf Arnheim)
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. (Quote by - Mike Myers)
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen. (Quote by - Dalton Trumbo)
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. (Quote by - Thomas Friedman)
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. (Quote by - Murray Gell-Mann)
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
