Practicals Quotes - Page 37

• In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Practical Life, Compelled

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.70, Open Road Media

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

  Miguel

  Should, Fashionable, Aesthetics

  4 Copy quote

• In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  17 Copy quote

• Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

  Karen X. Tulchinsky

  Sex, Advice, Support

  4 Copy quote

• Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.

  Neal Stephenson

  Meditation, Everyday, Kabbalah

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.274, Spectra

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.

  Howard Lyman

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Simple

  50 Copy quote

• The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

  Robert Greene

  Keys, Years, Use

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Common Sense, Sound

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

  Brenda Ueland

  People, Advice, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Dream, Moving, Men

  9 Copy quote

• It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Moral Absolutism, Practice, Political

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

  Maria Montessori

  Exercise, Essence, Environment

  61 Copy quote

• A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Errors, Practice

  5 Copy quote

• For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Light, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Kindness, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Women, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1107, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Love Is, Our Love, Sentimental

  4 Copy quote

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

  4 Copy quote

• We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Looks, May, Appearance

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

  Saul Bellow

  Lying, Practical Things, Inaction

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

  9 Copy quote

• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

  5 Copy quote

• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

  5 Copy quote