Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the… — William James Copy Share Image
Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion;… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The NLP/HNLP Coach Practitioner Training in combination with Hypnosis I were just the 9 days that I needed. I enjoyed the many… — Schalk Burger Copy Share Image
Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems… — Barack Obama 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
