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- In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
- It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz
- The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe… — Unknown Author
- The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. — Benjamin Disraeli
- The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the… — Gilbert N. Lewis
- Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts
- I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another… — Richard Cobden
- The practical man build's a strong structure from the stone's thrown at him — Paul John II N Caballero