Anger is practical awkwardness. [ Colton ]
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. [ Froude ]
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. [ Chapin ]
Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. [ William Fleming ]
A mathematician is a practical man, estimating things by their real utility. [ W. H. Prescott ]
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. [ Amiel ]
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. [ Goethe ]
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. [ Theodore Parker ]
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. [ Whewell ]
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]
Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]
Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness. [ J. S. Mill ]
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]