Quotes of Guess - somelinesforyou

“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”

- John Wilmot

“ We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ It is the theory that decides what we can observe. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. ”

- Amanda Burton

“ Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ It is with theories as with wells; you may see to the bottom of the deepest if there be any water there, while another shall pass for wondrous profound when it is merely shallow, dark, and empty. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. ”

- Paul Graham

“ Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. ”

- Karl Popper

“ It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. ”

- Brian Greene

“ A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks. ”

- Jason Zebehazy

“ No theory is good unless it permits not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. ”

- Andre Gide

“ When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is. ”

- Judy Davis

“ Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. ”

- Charlotte Bunch

“ O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ”

- Unknown

“ Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. ”

- Paul Feyerabend

“ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ”

- Unknown

“ Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ”

- William Cowper

“ The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it. ”

- Betty Cuthbert

“ She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. ”

- Iggy Pop
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