The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we… — Maria Rubio Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The secular utopians basically said the exact same thing, they just took the Bible out of the equation. The religious and the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an… — Kevin P. Ryan Copy Share Image
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
