Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple… — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion…if the next thing you're going to say makes you… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“BE KIND to your future self. Leave things as you would wish to find them tomorrow. You never wake up and say,… — Marcia K. Matthews Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any.… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
![“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language…” quote by Sarah Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d0/sarah-fielding-19151_assuming_h-ow-do-i-pity-those-who-assuming-the-na_687697.jpg)
![“[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them…” quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f5e/pierre-simon-laplace-15849_born_science-dissipates-errors-born-of-ignora_1772550.jpg)