Top 457 Speculation Quotes & Sayings

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

There's always speculation around the best players.

Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

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.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

Transfer speculation during the off-season does spur you on.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

I'm not much into speculation.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Trading is a small part of the work of the stock exchanges. They are really to do with financial speculation, and they speculate on the value of the yen, the dollar, the pound, the franc, or the euro, at any given time. Billions are lost and billions are made by this speculation, and that's what the stock exchanges are about. They are for greedy minds.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

There is speculation that I was arrested in Pakistan, but that's not true.

I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.

Speculation is not knowledge.

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.