“ In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilization of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ”
- Luciano Berio- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 767
“ Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ”
- Cadet Maxim- Copy
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“ Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
- 959
“ When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention. ”
- Dan Marino- Copy
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“ The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 911
“ The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
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