Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily take issue with the label 'conservative journalist,' but I never particularly use that to describe myself. But I guess… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil,… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into… — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
