Practical Quotes

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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolmaâ€™ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony… — H. L. Mencken
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is… — Thomas Huxley
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth… — E F Schumacher
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without… — James Truslow Adams
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. — Robert Jarvik
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they,… — Edmund Burke
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss… — Carl Linnaeus
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy. — Bob Newhart
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see… — Lionel Trilling
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy… — Mark McKinnon
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. — Paul Nurse
The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them… — Kevin O'Leary
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its… — Thomas Sowell
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so… — Roger Hodgson
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use. — Jackson Rathbone

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