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" Quotes and Sayings About theory

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Agent Become Entire Flower
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Between Difference No Difference Practice
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It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.

Theory People Government Own
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Behavior Had Human Make
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Single Individual Theory
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Destroy America Prosperity Peace
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

There Believe Element Happiness
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Affair Less Love Love Affair
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Always Been Cheap Despair
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Boards Cast Compass He
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Always Doing Enjoy Fresh
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

About Along Beautiful Beautiful Women
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Bizarre Disappear Universe Discovers
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Abstract Based Dangerous Laws
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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

About Blow Brain Computer
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
Essays Like Theory Writing
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Beautiful Children Extent Fellow
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
Revolutionary Theory Movement
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Beautiful Democracy Fallacy Practice
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action Either Itself Must
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Sense Communists Summed Single-sentence
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Fun Games Guy I Love
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Faith is not just a theory, it is a mystery that demands your absolute trust in god which you have to consciously build because faith does not just happen. Faith comes by hearing!

Faith Mystery Demands Trust
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

BeTrue Crazy Enough Theory
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Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

Based Been Classical Defined
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Observations always involve theory.

Observation Involve theory
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

Against Also Because Movies
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
Accepted Communist Dogma Never
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

About Always Counterproductive Got
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Assumes Economic Future Idea
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Cannot Defects Difficult Experiments
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Appears Intended Neither Nor
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Bang Big Big Bang Cause
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Appalling History Idea Oppressed
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

About Condition Control Cultivating
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

About Does Long Machinery
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There is no complete theory of anything.

Anything Complete Theory
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

About Doubt Earth Evolution
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

My choice Rest Scientific theory Observation
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