Top 1200 Economic Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of the world's population hasn't yet reached the level of economic development where we begin to get a dissociation from people's economic status and their reports about personal happiness. So we really do need to do much more and much more effectively in order to give everyone the kind of basis for which they can have good vibes.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

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

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

We want best efforts guided by theory.

There is a difference between a job and the promise of jobs, there is a difference between economic development and the promise of economic development.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

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

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

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

Topology and number theory are my faves.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.