One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. — Carolyn Wells 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
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
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
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
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks,… — Larry Wall 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
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
Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The most striking fact about contemporary university students is that there is no longer any canon of books which forms their taste… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“I believe this movement will prevail. I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else. Quite the opposite.… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. — Anthony Kennedy 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
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by… — Blake Masters Copy Share Image
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whenever there has been a debate on the national stage, nobody has had to go looking to find me. I've been there.… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
“No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
