Practical Wisdom Quotes

“If we can balance long-term vision with the flexibility to respond to immediate challenges, we are able to earn practical wisdom and create a dynamic interplay of thinking and doing. ("Ruling the waves”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The dance between Lightness and Heaviness is a dance between freedom and commitment, between flexibility and responsibility. Practical wisdom tells us when we must act or hold back and when we should choose to let life flow or pursue purpose and substance. (“The unbearable heaviness of being")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present. However, I reflected as I walked away: 'Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know... [A]s I pursued my investigation at the god's command,... my honest impression was... that the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence.”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“I will not underrate the importance [of equipment]... But I insist that the trained mind is the first thing, and for scouting a fool on horseback is worth less than a wise man on foot.”
― Karl Pearson, National Life from the Standpoint of Science

“Keep your section solvent, keep your job.”
― Michael Alexander, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

“...cultivation of the right mindset and the use of the right mental attitude are the ultimate goals that will deliver to us the life we have only dreamed of thus far...”
― Elle Sommer, Reboot Your Money Mindset: Surprising Strategies For Mastering Wealth

“I see practical enlightenment as becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is always inevitable, that no matter what you do, life is comprised of failures, loss, regrets, and even death.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, Rewire Your Mindset, The Fitness Mindset, Meltdown 4 Books Collection Set

“In times, it is better to be practical than to be real.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar