Practice Quotes

4199 Practice quotes by 2432 unique authors

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when… — Maria Montessori
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action.… — Paulo Freire
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world;… — Paulo Freire
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is… — Kodo Sawaki
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try… — Gabriela Sabatini
In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into… — Andrew Sullivan
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are… — Paul Dudley White
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. — Jared Diamond
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. — Alfred Kazin
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but… — Amanda Beard
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field. — Bill Crawford
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. — Walter Savage Landor
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against… — Alfred Binet
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead… — Henry Hazlitt
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an… — Aleister Crowley
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest… — Aleister Crowley
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage. — Eliphas Levi
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it… — Louis Sullivan
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have… — Jon Katz

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