In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly… — William James Copy Share Image
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I'm kind of balanced between excited about the potential of the project, and the knowledge that I shouldn't get my hopes up.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance,… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the… — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK,… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon Copy Share Image
Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image