To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus Copy Share Image
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“Without commerce, advanced social orders can’t evolve, so we’re stuck in the primitive state where every nerd fabricates everything from first principles.” — Brad Cox Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why… — Matt Mullenweg 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
We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison 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
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke 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
I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in… — Dave Brat 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
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a… — Eric Liu 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
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid 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
“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle 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
“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis - incommensurable with the others - and in which to go… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Since I can see no answer to these questions, I draw the following conclusions. This thing which I have called for convenience… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Note from Tim Ferriss: I asked Tim to share a fun piece of related background. Here it is. In early 2015, Elon… — Timothy Ferriss 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
“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
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