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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color. — Mark Twain

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. — Samael Aun Weor

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Saul Kripke

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. — Milton Friedman

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. — Taisen Deshimaru

Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories. — Sam Harris

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. — Georges Rouault

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense. — Julian Barnes

Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read.. — Samael Aun Weor

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. — Anonymous

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works. — John Marston

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow

The Real Skinny behind the Big 3 Conspiracy Theories — Beryl Dov

There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies. — Santosh Kalwar

Whether an observation is significant depends on what theories one already accepts. — William Hasker

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. — Kenneth E. Boulding

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. — George Eliot

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker. — Malachy McCourt

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. — Michael Crichton

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. — Craig Ferguson

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

Theory A widely accepted hypothesis that stands the test of time. Theories are often tested, and usually not rejected. — Jean Brainard

How could history of science fail to be a source of phenomena to which theories about knowledge may legitimately be asked to apply? — Thomas S. Kuhn

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. — Roger Cohen

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton

But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories. — Jules Verne

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life. — Edward T. Welch

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success. — Albert Bandura

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. — Derek Landy

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. — Izaak Walton

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The — Mark Bowden

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. — Maurice De Vlaminck

Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That — Thomas S. Kuhn

I love to read theories without ever using them when working ... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. — Ernst Haas

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. — Lance Olsen

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don't even realize that they're just theories. — Byron Katie

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. — Neil Kinnock

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. — Charley Lau

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge — Manuel Castells

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Theories pass. The frog remains. — Jean Rostand

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild. — Vijay Seshadri

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory. — Andy Kindler

The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff. — Tahereh Mafi

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. — August Bier

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. — Ernst Haas

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories. — Peter Lilley

All theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification. — Neil Postman

Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The — Walter Isaacson

Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories. — Adam Christopher

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. — Will Rogers

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith

You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts — Forrest Carr

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. — William Mapother

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories. — Albert Einstein

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. — John Wilmot

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of. — Terence McKenna

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear. — James Joyce

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories. — Silvia Hartmann

People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline. — Shelly Branch

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges

Thoughts and theories don't build the road. — Amit Kalantri

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

Between the theories and your life, choose your life. — Marty Rubin

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true of theories ... — Richard C. Cox

Theories are there. Heroes are here — Robert J. Braathe

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. — Michael Cunningham

[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself. — Yuval Levin

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. — Patti Stanger

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time. — Lisa Randall

If one of the five theories describes our univers, who lives in the other four worlds — Edward Witten

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations. — Agnes Repplier

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit. — Terry Pratchett

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. — Thomas A. Edison

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about. — Peaches Geldof

One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing. — Henry James

Theories are just fantasies. And they change. — Michael Crichton

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. — Aldous Huxley

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. — Richard P. Feynman

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

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. — Simon Travaglia

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat. — Gary Hopkins

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. — Gregory Benford

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Very dangerous things, theories. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You know you're like, my hero, right? — Stuart Stutzman