Theory Quotes - Page 22

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

My theory on education is... get one.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

Gray is the color of all theory