Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I believe that all the churches are going to continue to grow. I think faith in America is at an all-time high.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which… — James Leonard Gordon Copy Share Image
Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
![“One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito]…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5f/cheryl-strayed-605_book_one-of-the-scandalous-things-i-did-was-a_2945423.jpg)
