Principles Quotes

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

— Laozi

“We are carriers of God”

— Sunday Adelaja

Place principle above all else.

— Haile Selassie

The world rests on principles.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Truth never dies.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“You values are your life’s worth”

— Sunday Adelaja

Dogma will always defend itself.

— Peter Marley

“Employment is a major time killer”

— Sunday Adelaja

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

— Aleister Crowley

Strong words are required for weak principles.

— Douglas Horton

“The principle of God is love and honor”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

It is so hard to have principles and have anything to do with television.

— Steve Johnson

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…

— Jacques Hadamard

“We’ll discuss six principles here: proximity, similarity, enclosure, closure, continuity, and connection.”

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…

— Sinclair Lewis

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than…

— James Madison

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

— Miyamoto Musashi

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

— George W. Bush

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

— Irvine Welsh

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all…

— Philip Massinger

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are…

— Edward Tufte

While we have agreed to pay the E.U. tens of billions of pounds in the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration that aimed…

— Jo Johnson

He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable…

— Ernst Engel

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold…

— Confucius

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is…

— Aneurin Bevan

Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles…

— Ben Stein

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit…

— Louis of Granada

We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all…

— Reza Aslan

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state:…

— William Wordsworth

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must…

— Anastas Mikoyan

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the…

— Edward Gibbon

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would…

— Noam Chomsky