The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco. — Cornelis Bontekoe Copy Share Image
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them. — Donald M. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Some hearts weren't meant to grow wings and fly to another to find nest. Some hearts are made to be kept within… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
