A Quote by Booker T. Washington

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

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Abstraction Application Ounce Ton Worth

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Booker T. Washington
American - Educator
April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Sivananda

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

John B. S. Haldane

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

J. G. Ballard

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

Michael Josephson

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

Charles Spurgeon

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Wilferd Peterson

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

E. F. Schumacher

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

George Monbiot

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Ed Parker

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

John Junor

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

Grenville Kleiser

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

Savielly Tartakower

To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.