Practise Quotes

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! (Walter Scott)
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. View quote
Edmund Waller
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
They only babble who practise not reflection. View quote
Edward Young
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. View quote
Michael Tippett
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. View quote
Ramakrishna
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. View quote
E. M. Forster
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought. View quote
Baldassare Castiglione
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. View quote
Robert Browning
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise. View quote
Plutarch
Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere. (Sathya Sai Baba)
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price. View quote
Sophocles
For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender. View quote
Umar
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself. View quote
John Locke
I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff. View quote
Rick Riordan
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure. View quote
Atul Gawande
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. View quote
David Brainerd
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. View quote
Pierre Laval
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. View quote
Wayne McGregor
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. (Thabo Mbeki)
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them. View quote
Uma Thurman
[W]hy do men continue to practise themselves the absurdities they despise in others? View quote
Thomas Paine
Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise. View quote
Alec Douglas-Home
Personally, I do not need a movement. What was given to me, I take for granted. Of all movements, I like Cubism most. It had that wonderful unsure atmosphere of reflection - a poetic frame where something could be possible, where an artist could practise [sic] his intuition. It didn't want to get rid of what went before. Instead it added something to it. The parts that I can appreciate in other [art] movements came out of Cubism. Cubism became a movement, it didn't set out to be one. It has force in it, but it was no 'force-movement.' And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp - for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to - a movement for each person and open for everybody. View quote
Willem de Kooning