Top 38 Practical Vs. Theoretical Quotes
#2. The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell
#3. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.
Nikola Tesla
#4. The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
Aristotle.
#5. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
Ada Lovelace
#6. You may be theoretically rich but practically poor.
Pushpa Rana
#7. I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.
Lena Dunham
#9. Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.
Kay Arthur
#10. Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
Thomas Aquinas
#11. Reason drives your search to make sense of the world by pushing you to ask why things are as they are. For theoretical reason, the outcome of that search becomes science; for practical reason, the outcome is a more just world.
Susan Neiman
#12. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.
Donald Knuth
#13. There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
Dana Brunetti
#14. You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.
Brian Helgeland
#15. Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice. Each volume focuses on a theater-maker whose practical and theoretical work has in some way transformed the way we understand theater and performance.
Karen K. Bradley
#16. I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.
Robert Anton Wilson
#18. You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
Deborah Bull
#19. The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.
Richard Bauckham
#20. Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
William Pitt
#21. For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#22. I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Sarah McLachlan
#23. We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. It was a strange feeling, to want to throw something at him and protect him from dangerous flying objects at the same time.
Tarun Shanker
#25. We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
Charles Kennedy
#27. All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.
David Novak
#28. Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.
Charles Stross
#29. In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
Francois Englert
#30. It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
Alfred North Whitehead
#31. Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
William Batchelder Greene
#32. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#33. There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.
Michael Pollan
#34. I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
Hilary Mantel
#35. The arduous nature of practical Christianity makes so many people choose theoretical Christianity! Both are however good, but the former is weightier, noble and solemn than the later! Many are called, but few are dedicated!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.
Oswald Chambers
#37. Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.
Julia Sweeney
#38. Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.
Alfred North Whitehead