Speculation Quotes

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

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

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

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

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

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

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

Speculation is not knowledge.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

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.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

I'm not much into speculation.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.