My theory is to play as slow as possible, but yet be able to play the big shots.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

There’s always been that theory that if a candidate can’t run a decent campaign, he probably can’t run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

That’s where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

Besides, we weren’t made to battle villains, because there weren’t any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn’t see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn’t condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

It’s just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence

America is the ultimate denial of the theory of man’s continuous evolution.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

I am, by nature, a guitar player… I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour…I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

There are many whose religion consists in theory. Their lives are not uplifted and ennobled by practicing the truth they profess. Faithful Christian men and women should have a distinguished appearance.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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?

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working ‘business theory’ will be valid 10 years hence.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

There is another theory that states: This has already happened.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

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

Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

It’s the airplane oxygen-mask theory: If you don’t put on your mask first, you won’t be able to save anyone else.

Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

A theory which emphasizes individual control and responsibility denies a basic fact of human existence.