It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith for ultimate justice.… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it… — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of… — Richard P. Feynman 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 principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what… — Tim Huelskamp Copy Share Image
But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image