Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle,… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This… — John Hagel Copy Share Image
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick… — Proclus Copy Share Image
Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer… — Mike Batt Copy Share Image
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or… — William McGregor Paxton Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot… — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Living by your principles will always be the harder path. But you have to do it anyway. You have to do what’s… — Zoe Cannon Copy Share Image
My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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