Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
Zadie Smith
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Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
Courtney Love
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Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them.
Ann Coulter
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Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Trevor Rabin
Cinema
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
