Principles Quotes · Page 94

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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

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

— Jean Dieudonne

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

— Max Horkheimer

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

— Kenny Chesney

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

— Blaise Pascal

Because I understand the Constitution, I understand democratic ideals and our parliamentary system, it's an easy transition to then say 'OK, what…

— Leslyn Lewis

We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in…

— Erich Fromm

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety,…

— Rollo May

The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and…

— Michael Pollan

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of…

— Joe Biden

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might…

— Greg Koukl

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in…

— Shashi Tharoor

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live…

— Martha Graham

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This…

— John Hagel

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather…

— Alan Lightman

In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick…

— Proclus

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows…

— George Henry Lewes

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

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

— James K. Polk

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

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

— Ambrose Bierce

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

— George W. Bush

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