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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Principles are more important than methods.”

— Sven Kohlhaas

“Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.”

— Thomas Paine

“Principles are better than instructions and “hacks.” We can figure out the specifics later—but only if we learn the right way to approach them.”

— Ryan Holiday

“A few individuals, by extraordinary genius, or by the accidental acquisition of a good set of intellectual habits, may work without principles in the…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill

“Bear in mind, practice is more important than principle. Principles without practice is worthless. Humans of principles may get famous for a short while,…

— Abhijit Naskar

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

— Charles Koch

“Principles make it simple.”

— Leonard Peikoff

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Things are impossible when we fail to know the principles guiding them

— Justiceogali

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

— Thomas Paine