Principles Quotes · Page 82

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

— Elon Musk

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

— Anonymous

Common sense isn't common, freedom isn't free, and justice isn't always just. Those principles will never change.

— Anonymous

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

— Nelson Mandela

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

— Stephen Ambrose

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable…

— Bruce Lee

On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a…

— Dana Perino

You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me…

— Swami Vivekananda

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it…

— Jonathan Haidt

All individuals in all cultures use the same thirty basic moral categories, concepts, or principles, and all individuals in all cultures go…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation…

— Antoine Lavoisier

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't…

— Peter Singer

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to…

— David Lange

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that…

— Julius Evola

There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago…

— Kenneth Arrow

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But…

— Confucius

Scouting contributes to a boy's preparation to hold the priesthood of God. Scout leaders have a sacred responsibility. They help boys learn…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the…

— Mark Skousen

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise…

— George Washington

As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to…

— Wynn Bullock

For me, the involvement of states in our national effort is not just because of their constitutional and legal responsibilities. It is…

— Narendra Modi

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

— Marcus Aurelius

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

— Blaise Pascal

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus…

— Kenny Chesney

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to…

— Max Horkheimer

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

— James K. Polk

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the…

— Albert Einstein

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be…

— Rupert Sheldrake

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

— Paul Kurtz

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his…

— William Gurnall

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

— Larry Dossey

“Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources”

— Sunday Adelaja