Practical Purposes Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with… — Henry Ward Beecher
• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
• Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without… — James Van Allen
• The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to… — Hans Selye
• Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. — Alexander John Ellis
• I am only me for practical purposes. — Julian Baggini
• You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality. — Richard Rohr
• If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for… — Janis Karpinski
• The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can… — Rene Descartes
• One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing… — Mike Judge
• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• ... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores.… — Patrick Rothfuss
• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know… — Chuck Klosterman
• Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this… — Ban Ki-moon
• The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. — George Leonard
• For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. — Jean Stafford
• Last year no one in Los Angeles, for all practical purposes, could watch our show, so it was much harder getting good guests. — Tony Danza

Who Wrote These Practical Purposes Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Practical Purposes Quotes as follows:

• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Jean Stafford
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Tony Danza
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by George Herbert
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by James Van Allen
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Hans Selye
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Alexander John Ellis
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Julian Baggini
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Richard Rohr
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Janis Karpinski
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Charles Babbage
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Rene Descartes
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Mike Judge
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Chuck Klosterman
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by Ban Ki-moon
• 1 Practical Purposes Quote by George Leonard