Speculation Quotes

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Daring

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Sometimes
  • Philosophy
  • Speculation

• I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Film

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  

  Edwin Armstrong
  • Imagination
  • Inspiration
  • Goals

• Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Nostalgia
  • Speculation
  • Idle

• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Companies
  • Speculation
  • Oil stock

• Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Speculation
  • Resting
  • Certainties

• The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Government
  • Opposition
  • Speculation

• The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Song
  • Image
  • Desperate

• I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Speculation

• There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Today
  • Wall
  • Streets

• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Football

• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Speculation

• Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Desire
  • Attitude
  • Trading

• The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Money
  • War
  • Depression

• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Desire
  • Evil
  • Poor

• The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

  

  James Cook
  • Speculation
  • Universality
  • Tattooing

• I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Fine
  • Speculation

• Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

  

  Pam Shriver
  • World
  • Drug
  • Speculation

• A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Long
  • May
  • Sea

• Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

  

  John Milton
  • Top
  • Speculation
  • Descend

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