Theory Of Life Quotes

• Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Work

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.227, Penguin

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

  Gloria Steinem

  Grateful, Long, Too Much

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.265, Open Road Media

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• No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

  Oscar Wilde

  Theory, Importance

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.111, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Food, Sorrow, Earth

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.259, U of Nebraska Press

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• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

  Agnes Repplier

  Talking, People, Sacred

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Character, Personality

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• To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Years

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• Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Safety

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• ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Agreement, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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