Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in…

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and…

— Isaac Newton

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as…

— Amber Heard

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

— Thomas Jefferson

It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest…

— Christopher Hitchens

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so…

— Francis Bacon

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

— Baruch Spinoza

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.…

— Elizabeth Keckley

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose…

— Saddam Hussein

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

— Charles de Foucauld

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my…

— Nelson Mandela