Practicals Quotes - Page 2

• A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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• No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, May, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

  Alistair Begg

  Expression, People, May

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• The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

  PZ Myers

  Fashion, Hypothesis, Supreme Being

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• While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

  Dave Reichert

  People, House, Energy

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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Luciano Berio

  Spiritual, Ears, Demand

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• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Margaret Spellings

  Relationship, Talking, Goal

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Women, Party, Issues

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• It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, Achievement, Purpose

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Circles, Three

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spread, Effects

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Writing, Mean, Political

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• This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

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• Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Skepticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

  Roger Corman

  Artist, Venice, Two

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• The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Ideas, Mathematics

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, People, Suffering

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• Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

  Mao Zedong

  Example, Tasks, Losing

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Believe, Filled Up

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Math, Civilization, Progress

  Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Imagination, Faithful

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Intelligent, Fishing

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• We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Giving, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

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