November 2008 – Page 124 – Dictionary of Quotes

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Warren Buffett

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.Things and Little ThingsQuotations by Warren Buffett

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. Walter Benjamin

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.Things and Little ThingsQuotations by Walter Benjamin

Nothing can be done except little by little. Charles Baudelaire

Nothing can be done except little by little.Things and Little ThingsQuotations by Charles Baudelaire

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. Daisy Ashford

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.Things and Little ThingsQuotations by Daisy Ashford

Little by little does the trick. Aesop

Little by little does the trick.Things and Little ThingsQuotations by Aesop

Let us work without theorizing, ‘Tis the only way to make life endurable. Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, ‘Tis the only way to make life endurable.TheoryQuotations by Voltaire

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. Jean Rostand

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.TheoryQuotations by Jean Rostand

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. Karl Popper

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.TheoryQuotations by Karl Popper

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. William Pitt

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.TheoryQuotations by William Pitt

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.TheoryQuotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.TheoryQuotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. Ruth Hubbard

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.TheoryQuotations by Ruth Hubbard

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. Edgar Watson Howe

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.TheoryQuotations by Edgar Watson Howe

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. Edgar Watson Howe

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.TheoryQuotations by Edgar Watson Howe

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Sherlock Holmes

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.TheoryQuotations by Sherlock Holmes

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.TheoryQuotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. Edith Hamilton

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.TheoryQuotations by Edith Hamilton

It is theory that decides what can be observed. Albert Einstein

It is theory that decides what can be observed.TheoryQuotations by Albert Einstein

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Hosea Ballou

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.TheoryQuotations by Hosea Ballou

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Jeremy Taylor

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.TheologyQuotations by Jeremy Taylor

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.TheologyQuotations by Christopher Morley

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.TheologyQuotations by H. L. Mencken

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.TheologyQuotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.TheologyQuotations by Robert Green Ingersoll

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