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«First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.»
«Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Logic
| Keywords:
practical, reasoning, The Foundation
«If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.»
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Basketball Player)
| Keywords:
Education i, long-lasting, positive thinking, practical, realistic, willingness
«All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
combine, following, interests, practical, speculative, The three
«Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Humanity,
Needs
| Keywords:
captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, disinterested, dreamers, enterprise, forgetting, general interest, practical, safeguard, Tha, The General
«A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.»
«In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, destroy, intact, practical, shatter, shattering, shatters, The Art of War
«All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achie»
«Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
denunciation, effectively, eloquent, influenced, mentioning, point of view, practical, propagandist, propagandists, subjects, totalitarian
«In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.»
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