Top 1200 Theory And Practice Quotes & Sayings

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

The best practice is inspired by theory.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.

The best theory is inspired by practice.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

You have to connect your work to what people are doing. A good way is to construct a bridge between theory and practice - Amartya Sen and I tried this by founding the Human Development and Capabilities Association where practitioners meet theoreticians and their discourse influences practice.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

In art, practice always comes before theory.