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“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”

“It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.”

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Author:Proclus

“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.”

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Book:In Search of Lost Time: Or

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or

“Life is so unlike theory.”

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Author:Anthony Trollope

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

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire