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• You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fault, Theory, Grunting, Psychotherapy, Grunt, Blame

• When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scream, Theory, Sweeps, Expect

• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

  Steven Wright

  Topics in Evolution, Funny, Humor

  Tags in Theory

• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Complete

• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Philosophy, Science

• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Helpful

• My theory about Jack is that he’s not a very good parent.

  Victor Garber

  Tags in Theory, Jack

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  Edward W. Howe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Fact, Photograph

• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Theory, Succeeds

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Morality, Theory

• I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

  Paul Farmer

  Tags in Catholicism, Theory

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Action, Behavior

• Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

  William Pitt

  Tags in Sake, Theory

• Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Athlete, Pitcher, Celebrity

• A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

  Edgar Watson Howe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory

• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  Garet Garrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolutionary, Theory, Solution

• It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

  Thomas Robert Malthus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acknowledged, Experiment, Theory, Philosophy

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humankind, Individual, Theory, Unerring, Universe, Miscellaneous

• I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn’t have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

  Christian Bale

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Theory

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

  Benito Mussolini

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Theory, Fallacy