Edmund Burke Quotes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice

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

What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true? If no practical difference could be traced, then … all dispute is idle.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Out of bad motives good things often come.

One pursues economic theory in too extreme an extent he is likely to be in trouble; you have to consider the reality and blend what you observe as reality with an ingredient of theory, and a little, just a little bit ahead of the time, then you are likely to succeed.

I dread the reveries of you philosophic politicians.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

While 'Django Unchained' presents a morally stark universe, where people do and say evil things with no remorse, it also luxuriates in the license that such evil provides.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!