Principles Quotes · Page 59

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with…

— Alexander Pope

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of…

— Claude C. Hopkins

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

— Marvin Bower

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

— Marco Rubio

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person…

— Alan Dershowitz

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

— Alexander Hamilton

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless…

— Dale Dauten

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,…

— Wendell Berry

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want…

— Narendra Modi

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,…

— Noam Chomsky

That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at…

— Anonymous

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")…

— Giordano Bruno

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new…

— Joseph Priestley

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle…

— James Gunn

Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple…

— Noam Chomsky

“On his death bed, he wrote his famous Dokkodo – final principles for the students of his school.   The third principle…

— Sebastian Marshall

...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body…

— Andrew Weil

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong

“The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it”

— Sunday Adelaja

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

— Nat Hentoff

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

— William Rehnquist

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

— Roger Babson

“You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose”

— Sunday Adelaja

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not…

— Confucius

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and…

— James T. Shotwell

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

— Travis Kalanick

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

— Tom Coburn

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you…

— John le Carre

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

— Tariq Ramadan

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

— Maxime Bernier

In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply…

— Mike Braun