“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The world was ready for greater discoveries two thousand years ago. (Heron of Alexandria is an excellent example of an inventor who… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her… — William H. Masters Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as… — Huntington Willard Copy Share Image
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
In no way, shape, manner, or form could the conservative movement or a conservative, a Burkean conservative could never, ever vote for… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support… — Ben Bernanke 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