Everybody has a theory. - Daniel Handler
First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. - William James
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. - Marcel Proust
It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. - Michael Crichton
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. - Romain Rolland
Professors in every branch of the sciences prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is, that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. - Charles Caleb Colton
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience only is tangible. - Hosea Balloe
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