#practice

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#practice #satisfaction #satisfaction

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ? Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on. ↗

— Toba Beta

#learning #life #practice #tough #wisdom

‎"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent. ↗

— Raoul Bott

#math #practice #presistance #raoul-bott #humor

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#cases #killing #operative #part #practice

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#i #ideas #into #may #me

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ↗

— William James

#each #everybody #hates #just #least

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