Actions Quotes Logo

Practicality Quotes

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a gre...

Show More

It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so ...

Show More

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into ano...

Show More

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...

Show More

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep y...

Show More

It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...

Show More
Picture of Wendell Berry
Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who ...

Show More

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

I am apt, however, to entertain a Suspicion, that the World is still too young to fix any general st...

Show More

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of...

Show More

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temp...

Show More

As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in a...

Show More