#practic

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#come #excite #going #i #interesting

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#distinct #law #perfectly #practice

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. ↗

— Ken Starr

#language #practice #said #sharp #wrong

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#disclosed #does #happen #intellectual #just

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#learn #like #might #much #must

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#comes #day #hope #human #human beings