Practice Quotes

4199 Practice quotes by 2432 unique authors

The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more… — Ezra Taft Benson
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my… — George J. Mitchell
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy… — Ambrose Bierce
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by… — Jakob Nielsen
Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to… — Andrew Young
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of… — Woodrow Wilson
Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence. — Mary Hesse
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is… — Swami Vivekananda
By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every… — Swami Vivekananda
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of… — Swami Vivekananda
I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it? — Swami Vivekananda
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control. — Swami Vivekananda
It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards. — Swami Vivekananda
Move onward and carry into practice. — Swami Vivekananda
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. — Swami Vivekananda
One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. — Swami Vivekananda

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