Practical
Of or pertaining to practice or action.
Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
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Practical Quotations
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen
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.
Sun Tzu
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."
Erma Bombeck
Practical Translations
practical in Afrikaans is prakties
practical in Danish is praktisk, virkelig
practical in Dutch is praktisch
practical in Finnish is todellinen
practical in German is brauchbar, geeignet
practical in Italian is utilitario
practical in Norwegian is praktisk
practical in Swedish is praktisk
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