#heo

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#bad #bad government #executed #execution #feeble

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#capacity #highest #man #then #theoretical

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#business #else #run #theory #you

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#experiment #leads #path #proved #theory

Very dangerous things, theories. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#theories #things #very

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. ↗

— Charley Lau

#hitting #neither #them #theories #two

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#christian #enemy #established #i #know

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#brian #comes #directed #equivalent #forward

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' ↗