Practical Quotes
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The most practical solution is a good theory.
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.
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I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.
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I'll probably buy practical things, ... Groceries, gas.
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
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It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
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Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.
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Practical dreamers do not quit.
