Applied Quotes

590 quotes by 514 authors

When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience… — Peter Shepherd
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses;… — Henry R. Towne
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order… — Robert Farrar Capon
Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as… — Raymond Cattell
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. — James Whistler
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should… — Winston Churchill
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But… — William Cowper
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been… — Henri Matisse
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. — Thomas Sowell
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a… — William Howard Taft
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they… — Ludwig von Mises
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the… — Ludwig von Mises
We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. — Childe Hassam
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky

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