Practical Quotes

1222 quotes by 939 authors

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain… — Muhammad Iqbal
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture.… — Hugh Jackman
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they… — Arne Jacobsen
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. — Penn Jillette
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help… — Herman Kahn
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought… — Immanuel Kant
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to… — Immanuel Kant
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in… — Abraham Lincoln
We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we… — Stacy London
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest… — H P Lovecraft
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion,… — H P Lovecraft
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast… — Herman Melville
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an… — H. L. Mencken
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored.… — Haruki Murakami
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and… — Florence Nightingale
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that… — Harry Nilsson
I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical… — Joyce Carol Oates
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. — Joel Osteen
I deal with more practical issues of the Bible. — Joel Osteen

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