We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The… — Henrietta Mears Copy Share Image
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case,… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in… — Lawrence G. Lovasik 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
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Certainly one of our God-given privileges is the right to choose what our attitude will be in any given set of circumstances.… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt Copy Share Image
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles. — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is: 'There is no God and Dirac is His prophet.' — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold,… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle. — Andrew Fastow Copy Share Image
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
