Principle Vs Practice Quotes

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I've reached the age where I don't care what their motives are. It's their policies that count.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.