A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own. Ally Carter
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.Stephen Hawking
I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends. Eric Dickerson
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. James MacGregor Burns
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Cicero