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- The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the… — Henry Bolingbroke
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick… — Proclus
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal
- The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — Aristotle
- We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet
- Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle
- Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington
- Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison
- Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature… — Ernest Holmes
- The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus