Practical Quotations | Page 5

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Superstition has its practical uses.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

We finally decided to organize the second round on April 21, which is a Friday, for practical reasons.

The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

We do best when we are holding information and we're the only ones who have it. From a practical point of view, we can't tolerate the leaks.