Idle Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say Download Open image “Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!” — Jean-Baptiste Say ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Inspirational Opposition Practice Theory
“Against spending time on theory, devote more time for practicals” — Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
'theres a theory for everything & without theory there is no practice' — Issac Newton Copy Share Image
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead. — Alexander Suvorov Copy Share Image
To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image