Impractically Quotes & Sayings

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways. — Alaric Hutchinson

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end. — Hans Cloos

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy. — Kenny Smith

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul. — Michel Faber

None but God would have ever thought of justifying such a man as Saul the persecutor; but the Lord God is glorious in grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

They were scrawny, even by Feegle standards, with barely a wisp of beard hair between them and impractically low-slung spogs knocking about their knees, their kilts hung low on their skinny hips. To Tiffany's amazement, she could see the top bands of colored pants riding high above them. pants? On a Feegle? The times were indeed changing.
"Pull yon kilts up, lads!" Ron muttered as they pushed their way past. — Terry Pratchett

He missed the Midwest ... Northern California was impractically beautiful. Everywhere you looked there were trees and streams, waterfalls, mountains, the ocean ... There was nowhere to look just to look, just to think. — Rainbow Rowell

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight. — Johnnie Dent Jr.