John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist."
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Practicals
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Science is practical philosophy."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Be a practical dreamer backed by action."
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth."
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"Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity."
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"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth."
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"Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical."
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"Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious."
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"We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings."
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"The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value."
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"Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare."
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"There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it"
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"When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth ."
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"Information upon points of practical politics."
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"The most practical solution is a good theory."
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"There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down."
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"Practical dreamers do not quit."
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"Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical."
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"I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time."
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"Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?"
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"I'm practical. I see something, and I do it."
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"The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?"
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"Humility is practical application of knowledge."
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"If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral."
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