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“This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.”

Practice Theory Come Up Unanswered

Author:Mason Cooley

“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

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Author:Robert Walpole

“Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”

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Author:J. P. Guilford

“We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.”

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Author:Moses Finley

“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.”

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Author:Louis Pasteur

“That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.”

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Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.”

“American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.”

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Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.”

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Author:Brice Marden

“Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.”

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Author:William C. Brown

“When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.”

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Author:Louis Leterrier

“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.”

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Author:Mo Ibrahim

“Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.”

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Author:Ti-Grace Atkinson

“The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.”

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Author:David Hilbert

“The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.”

“Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.”

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Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.”

Practice Theory Theory Of Knowledge

Author:Michel Foucault

“You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.”

Believe Practice Theory Deny Deceiving

Book:Lectures to Professing Christians

Source: Lectures to Professing Christians

“According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.”

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Book:Christianity and Liberalism

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.”

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Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.”

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Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“In art, practice always comes before theory.”

Art Practice Theory

Author:Pablo Picasso

“System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.”

Practice Theory Administration Vengeance

Author:Steve Simmons

“Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.”

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Author:Al Gore

“I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.”

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Author:Barbara Degenevieve

“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.”

“It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.”

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Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.”

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Author:Charles Lamb

“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.”

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Author:James Cash Penney

“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.”

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Book:In Search of Lost Time: Or

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

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