Maxim Quotes

178 Maxim quotes by 124 unique authors

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 innovator’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
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some… — Thomas Paine
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which… — Jean de la Bruyere
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly;… — Frederic C. Howe
The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all… — John Wyndham
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This… — John Stuart Mill
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass… — Mark Twain
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an… — Wayne Dyer
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a… — Richard John Neuhaus
I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in… — Eva Longoria
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to… — Mary Wortley Montagu
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant

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