Maxim Quotes

178 quotes by 124 authors

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes,… — Robert Burton
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed… — Joseph Joubert
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. — David Hume
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that… — Eliot Spitzer
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.' — Allen West
F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the… — Dewitt Jones
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man… — James F. Cooper
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it… — John Searle
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year… — H.G. Wells
This is one of the innovatorâ€™s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal… — Clayton Christensen
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the… — Francis of Assisi
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and… — Ambrose Bierce
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend… — Jonathan Swift
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once." — Samuel Smiles
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. — Gerald Jonas

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