(485 quotes found)
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
Douglas Adams
“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services”
Henry Ford
“The recession started upon my arrival. It could have been—some say February, some say March, some speculate maybe earlier it started—but nevertheless, it happened as we showed up here. The attacks on our country affected our economy. Corporate scandals affected the confidence of people and therefore affected the economy. My decision on Iraq, this kind of march to war, affected the economy.”
George W. Bush
“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”
Mark Twain
“It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.”
Jim Dodge
“For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.”
William Barclay
“In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make”
Aristotle
“We certainly don't want to engage in speculation. The important thing is that it was found. ... There is an investigation. We'll keep asking questions.”
David Castelveter
“It's impossible to speculate.”
Gary Loveman
“It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)”
William Butler Yeats
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