Practical Value Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where… — Tim Ferriss
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic… — Harold Urey
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. — Mark Twain
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in… — Mahatma Gandhi
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value. — Frederick Douglass
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about… — John Guare
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit… — John Guare
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing… — Michael Crichton
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in… — Maria Montessori
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some… — Norman Vincent Peale
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy… — Edward Carpenter

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