When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a…

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's strength in numbers. But there's weakness in a man who relies on them.

— Anonymous

A man who relies upon himself wins a sort of glorious independence. For he has not to wait to be helped by others.

— Self-reliance

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

— Fernando Pessoa

The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection…

— Henry Harrower

The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a…

— B. C. Forbes

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which…

— Richard Cobden

“Here there is no doubt that timidity and a total lack of personal initiative have always been regarded among us as the chiefest and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hopefully, Donald Trump's a very practical man.

— Glenn Beck

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

— Henry Adams

“I'm afraid I'm a practical man,' said the doctor with gruff humour, 'and I don't bother much about religion and philosophy.' 'You'll never be…

— G.K. Chesterton

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

— James G. Frazer

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application…

— Louis Agassiz

“One nation, under God, with consciousness – the practical man serves the highest abstraction with juggling training.”

— Bauvard