General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold Copy Share Image
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
You cannot hurl textbook principles of right and wrong in the age of fake news, WhatsApp campaigns and personality-centric cult politics. Elections… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The ‘Regal Seven (key) Ingredients of a Successful Company’ is: Pursue the goal of Profit Maximization keeping in mind the shareholders interests.… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them… — Fabian Delph Copy Share Image
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. — Gerard Straub Copy Share Image
“You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of. — Niki Ashton Copy Share Image
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Our values are not the same as our principles, because we value our principles. — JOHN REYES Copy Share Image
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image