Then was I as a tree / Whose boughs did bend with fruit; but, in one night, / A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, / Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, / And left me bare to weather. Cymbeline, iii. 3.
Theology is anthropology. Feuerbach.
Theoretical principles must sometimes be suffered to give way for the sake of practical advantages. Pitt.
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our philosophical times; ages of genius have passed away, and they left no other record than their works. I. Disraeli.
Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience 20 only is tangible. H. Ballou.
Theories which do not connect measures with men are not theories for this world. Charles Fox.
Theory and practice always act upon one another. It is possible to construe from what we do what we think, and from what we think what we will do. Goethe.
Theory in and by itself is of no use except in so far as it proves to us the connection (Zusammenhang) that subsists among the phenomena. Goethe.
[Greek: theos hê anaideia]—Impudence is a god.
There are a thousand occasions for sorrow, 25 and a hundred for fear that day by day assail the fool; not so the wise man. Hitopadesa.