Top 1200 Practical Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

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

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.

Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

My husband himself is a producer, so we know the practical difficulties of producers.

When you #? travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #? rebirth .

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.