Top 1200 Practical Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

I was a practical joker as a teenager and I still am today - you can ask any of my staff.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

I am a practical human being. I use everything I know on every job I do.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe… They have no knowledge in that area. Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

I was hitting 40, and I realized I needed to just move on in life and do something practical.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

I think of myself, basically, as a very practical person in black bugle beads.

I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car.

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.