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.

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

Painting, because of its universality, becomes 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.

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

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.

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

Speculation is not knowledge.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.