Principles Quotes · Page 89

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

— Jim Holt

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

— H. W. Brands

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

— Jose Bergamin

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet…

— Mark Shields

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

— Ronald Reagan

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled…

— Harold E. Varmus

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles…

— James Webb Young

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and…

— George Washington

But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by…

— Justus von Liebig

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending…

— Herbert M. Shelton

While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle,…

— Kate Thornton

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other…

— Mike Quigley

Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters…

— C.E. Morgan

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against…

— Thomas Paine

This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters…

— Harold B. Lee

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all…

— Mary Hunter Austin

“There are underlying principles at play in nature, from the fields, quanta, and forces of the universe to the ebb and flow…

— Caleb Scharf

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such…

— Ayn Rand

That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

— Mike Dooley

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

— Michael Pare

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of…

— Noam Chomsky

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

— William Carlos Williams

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

— Jane Austen

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

— Bob Barr

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

— Al Gore

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

— Le Corbusier

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

— Sonia Delaunay

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

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