Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick… — Proclus Copy Share Image
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“For who could better describe the eye than God, Who made it? But as it is clearer than the day that God… — Georg Joachim Rheticus Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“Note from Tim Ferriss: I asked Tim to share a fun piece of related background. Here it is. In early 2015, Elon… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Since I can see no answer to these questions, I draw the following conclusions. This thing which I have called for convenience… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis - incommensurable with the others - and in which to go… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“If there are no self-evident first principles, as a foundation for reasoning to conclusions that are not immediately apparent, how can you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
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