Practical Quotes

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Politics, Keep, Whole

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Future

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Help, Takes

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

Time, Yourself, Learn

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Religion, Truth, True

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, Decency

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck

Time, Children, Put

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Good, Best, War

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

God, Try, Speak

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
Joel Osteen

Deal, Bible, Issues

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft

Strong, Feelings, Together

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

Great, Truth, Silence

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, Philosophy

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual, Parent

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge, Study, Universe

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker

Daily, Figure, Fears

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

Hope, May, Reason

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Politics, Business

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale

Small, Wonderful, Lose

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin

Two, Goodness, Duty

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

Experience, Ability, Spite

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Stephen Hawking

Power, Energy, Become

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

Leader, Talk, Language

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

Work, Age, Best

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

End, Important, Theory

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, Human, Another

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Greatest, Making

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