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  • Speculation is not knowledge.

  • Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.

    Herbert Spencer (1920). “Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921”
  • Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  • A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

    Stories   Care   Facts  
    "A Tale Of Two Cities: Author Donna Leon's Venice". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.
  • I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

    1843-4 Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.18.
  • Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

    Men   Buying In   Oil  
  • In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That's very different from the way time has normally been understood.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  • Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

    John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons
  • Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

    Mother   Mean   Science  
  • Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.118, VM eBooks
  • People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

    Wall   Hype   People  
    Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.36, Harper Collins
  • If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

    Crazy   Sleep   Degrees  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

    "Levitt to investors: get a clue" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 4, 1999.
  • My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

    Use   Want   Violence  
  • ...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

    Gilbert Burnet (1745). “An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England”, p.176
  • To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

    Self   Design   Pay  
  • I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

    "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.
  • I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

    "‘Under My Skin’ Exclusive Interview w/ Lauren London". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. May 27, 2011.
  • True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

    Life   Religious   Real  
    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.77, Ultramarine Publishing
  • A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

    Eight   Two   Twenties  
    Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion
  • In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

    Trust   Fog   Hands  
    "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.
  • Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

  • In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

  • As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past.

    Science   Past   Order  
  • It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

    Kings   Stupid   Party  
    Source: thepointmag.com
  • I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  • Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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