All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'The Man Who Can Fly' captures my quest for true human flight. This pursuit of the unknown and following dreams that may… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation,… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image