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The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology. — Armin Navabi

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs. — Michael Hudson

We were all bidding on pure speculation. — Erika Swyler

The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. — Deepak Chopra

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth. — Alexander MacLaren

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. — Michael Faraday

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. - — Louisa May Alcott

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. — Michael Vito Tosto

I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way. — Jenny Offill

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake. — Benjamin Graham

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. — Rob Bell

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

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat. — Scott Ritter

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. — David Harvey

Speculation is not knowledge. — Robert M. Price

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance. — Niels Bohr

Stock
speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D
are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same. — Benjamin Graham

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. — Hans Reichenbach

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation. — Martin Luther

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

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

So much of life seems speculation. — Elizabeth Strout

I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates. — Angelina Jolie

Better the poorest of real faith at work than the best ideal of it left in the region of speculation. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi

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

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

In its early years, Islam encouraged philosophical and scientific speculation: to know how the world worked was to know the mind of God. — Paul Strathern

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. — J. Paul Getty

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper

Confrontation is better than speculations. — Sunday Adelaja

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. — Jane Smiley

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin

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. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace. — Kenneth N. Waltz

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

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. — Alice Munro

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories. — Gary Weiss

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. — Rajneesh

Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure. — Thucydides

So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation. — Guy Debord

Wishful speculation is a spirit's gluttony — Aaron Ozee

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

An' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel — Neil M. Gunn

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know? — Sophie Kinsella

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

No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in. — John Keats

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed. — Sienna Miller

Watson, if the newspapers could be punished for speculation, every publication in England would soon enough be bankrupted. — Lyndsay Faye

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. — Shannon L. Alder

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. — El Greco

This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done. — Douglas Adams

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it — Andrew Carnegie

The whole thing became a matter of speculation: I was soon (in the famous words) "altering 'I believe' to 'one does feel.' " And oh, the relief of it! — C.S. Lewis

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people. — Heber J. Grant

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation. — Johnny Hunt

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment. — Shaun Tan

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life. — Mika.

Android speculation," Kai said, pointing at Nainsi. "It's better than regular speculation. — Marissa Meyer

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation ... — Paulo Coelho

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. — Harriet Martineau

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials. — Karen Russell

Ever love something so much you start to think it's yours? — Erika Swyler

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer! — Chipper Jones

A good business is based on information, analysis and insight, not speculation or opinion. Not all business owners share — Doug Richard

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business — Henry Ford

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting. — Adam Lambert

That a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. — Jenny Offill

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza

sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature. — R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

[T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being. — Ludwig Feuerbach

You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation. — M.L. Stedman

Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation, — Alexandre Dumas

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. — Hal Clement

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs. — Tariq Ramadan

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another. — George Gordon Byron

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation — David Willetts

Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction. — Elizabeth Peters

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. — Charles Darwin

Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation. — Bernard Cornwell

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation. — Alexander Lebedev

Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement. — Sylvia Day

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. — Michael Steinhardt

I've been to the other side ... You're dead there, too. — Courtney Kirchoff