Theory Quotes

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.