Quotes About Practicality

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

She had always been a practical girl, and was one still. "I know there's no such thing as what you say we are. It's a fairy tale, a compilation of people's groundless fears.

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

And so it often happened with those practical people. In spite of their calculations, their survival instincts, they might not get as far as they had quite reasonably expected. No doubt it seemed unfair.

And so it often happened with those practical people. In spite of their calculations, their survival instincts, they might not get as far as they had quite reasonable expected.

You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

Naturally, as soldiers, you all are prone to be sentimental about warfare. But fighting is only any use when it's cheaper than the alternatives.

A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

You can never have too many knives." "No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.