Practical Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Henry Adams)
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. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. View quote
Richard Feynman
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
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. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. View quote
Hannah Arendt
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)
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. View quote
Marie Curie
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? View quote
Immanuel Kant
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. View quote
George Eliot
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. View quote
L. Frank Baum
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. View quote
Ben Hecht
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. (George Steiner)
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years." View quote
Erma Bombeck
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Aristotle